RE: git-dir requires work-tree; documentation improvements for working directory

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Yaroslav Nikitenko wrote:
> I use git to manage my dotfiles with this command:
> 
>     git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ --work-tree=/home/yaroslav

I do precisely the same thing.

> When reading documentation, I noticed two issues.
> 
> 1) The command doesn't work without --work-tree (even from the top
> level directory, which is my home directory).
> 
>     [~]$ git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ status
>     fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree

That's weird. It works fine here (although I don't see why I would want
that).

If you remove all your configuration does it still fail?

> 2) In the man documentation for git > git-dir it's written
> "It can be an absolute path or relative path to current working directory."
> I think this can be confused with work-tree. I suggest removing the
> word 'working' (and probably add an article 'the' before the
> 'current', but I'm not a native speaker).

Yes, the article is missing, as for the rest I have no opinion.

> I don't subscribe to the mailing list but hope that I'll receive the replies.

Don't worry. The git mailing list doesn't munge the Reply-To header, so
any decent MUA will keep you in Cc.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras