From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Subject: What's a "work tree"? Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:09:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4798E26D.3040707@talkingspider.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 24 20:10:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JI7Sg-0002f3-Kr for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:10:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752312AbYAXTJg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:09:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752267AbYAXTJg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:09:36 -0500 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:3621 "HELO relay02.pair.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752055AbYAXTJf (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:09:35 -0500 Received: (qmail 95532 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2008 19:09:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 24 Jan 2008 19:09:34 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 72.225.213.70 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'm trying to figure out what a "work tree" is. as in --work-tree. This is a new command right, the tutorials I've read don't have it. The man page has the syntax but I don't know what it's for. $ cd /www/mysitedocroot $ git --git-dir /gitdir/mysitegit/ add . fatal: add must be run in a work tree thanks