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From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: git pull and GIT_DIR
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 22:25:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120502142536.GA2609@debian.b2j> (raw)

It appeared that

a)
cd /path/to && git pull git/https://....

will fetch and checkout latest changes to working tree.  This is as
expected.  On the contrary

b)
GIT_DIR=/path/to/.git git pull git/https://....

will only update git repo, but leaving working tree untouched.
Subsequent git status and git diff will indicate unstaged changes, 
apparently a commit that will revert the updated git repo. I have to
do 'git reset --hard' to really update the working three.

I'm not sure if this is an intended behavior or I missed something. 

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-02 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02 14:25 bill lam [this message]
2012-05-02 19:11 ` git pull and GIT_DIR Junio C Hamano
2012-05-02 23:21   ` bill lam

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