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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shouldn't git-ls-files --others use $GIT_DIR?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:51:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbfc82860611201151m52933720lfef939b7f6803411@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061119183756.GZ7201@pasky.or.cz>

On 11/19/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:37:42PM CET, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > If I do
> >
> > GIT_DIR=$HOME/projects/<project>/.git git ls-files --others
> >
> > from, e.g., $HOME, I get a list of all the files in $HOME and its
> > subdirectories that aren't in said git repository.  Shouldn't --others
> > use $GIT_DIR, instead of ".", or am I missing something here?
>
> git-ls-files --others lists untracked files in the current directory by
> comparing it to the index stored in $GIT_DIR/index and listing files
> present in the current directory but not in the index.

Ah, of course; how silly of me.  Thanks.


      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-20 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-19 13:37 Shouldn't git-ls-files --others use $GIT_DIR? Nikolai Weibull
2006-11-19 18:37 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-20 19:51   ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]

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