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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> In fact, the more I think about it, that makes sense. WORK_TREE munging
> just happens to be the only special behavior right now that depends on
> whether the user manually set GIT_DIR. But what we really want to
> communicate to later code is not "I have corrected this particular
> munge" but "don't run any special behavior as a result of this variable
> being set."

Yeah, that makes sense.