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Subject: Re: 1.5.0.rc1.g4494: Can't use a bare GIT_DIR to add
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:33:20 -0800
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To: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

> I tried this:
>   
>   mkdir xyz
>   cd xyz
>   git --git-dir=../xyz.git   
>      # Initialized empty Git repository in ../xyz.git/
>   echo Junk > file-a
>   git --git-dir=../xyz.git add .
>      # fatal: add cannot be used in a bare git directory
>
> I expected that "GIT_DIR is bare, over there, stuff is here" works the same
> as "GIT_DIR is .git, right here among stuff".
> -- 
> Dr. Horst H. von Brand                   User #22616 counter.li.org
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