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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cloning into an existing, non-empty directory?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:28:48 +0700
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2011/4/23 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
>> 2) running `git pull` as suggested results in:
>>
>> fatal: /usr/lib/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working t=
ree.
>>
>> which can be worked around by using --work-tree and --git-dir . Not
>> ideal, but workeable if I accept the race condition.
>
> Weird. =C2=A0Maybe chdir-ing into the work tree will help? =C2=A0(Tra=
ditionally,
> git commands tend to be run from within the work tree, so I wouldn't
> be too surprised if some commands do not like being run from outside.=
)

Does this patch help?

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150986
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Duy