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Subject: Re: Need to set GIT_WORK_TREE when setting GIT_DIR !?
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=46r=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Heitzmann  <frederic.heitzmann@gmail.com> writes:

Yes, to the question on the Subject line.  But you can also say=20

    [core] worktree =3D /path/to/the/work/tree

in $GIT_DIR/config.  Make sure your $GIT_DIR/config does *NOT* say
that the repository is a bare repository.

> ...
> Note: that using --git-dir instead of GIT_DIR give the same errors.

Yes, that is the intended behaviour; the command line option and the
environment variable should give you the same consistent effect).