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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frédéric Heitzmann" <frederic.heitzmann@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Need to set GIT_WORK_TREE when setting GIT_DIR !?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:20:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsjhg17bh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AUo3+ECdxfnyfYGA-mAtHB8KBOUrie3_Qo3cyfshZmAA@mail.gmail.com> (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy's message of "Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:05:59 +0700")

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Historical reason: before separate worktree feature was introduced,
> git assumed worktree was at $GIT_DIR's parent directory.

Isn't the rule that the current directory becomes the root of the
working tree if you did not have GIT_WORK_TREE?

In any case, the way I read Frédéric is that the other repository's
files will be accessed only from the root of the working tree, so as
long as the GIT_DIR/config says it is not a bare repository, it
should be OK.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-10 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09 22:51 Need to set GIT_WORK_TREE when setting GIT_DIR !? Frédéric Heitzmann
2012-03-09 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-10 13:23   ` Frédéric Heitzmann
2012-03-10 14:05     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-03-10 21:20       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
     [not found]         ` <CALeToSVPWPwJTYxRgy0BW4TBfBJrb+LXC+QJDWjceQ=4f2_tRw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CALeToSV6xx=Vfw8gRbmeKWDzcHFaYvgFhMqx5cwtCYKdASJptw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-11 21:13             ` Frédéric Heitzmann
2012-03-10 14:11 ` Jonathan Nieder

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