Re: GIT_DIR question

["Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com>]

On 6/18/07, Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> wrote:
> Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to create cloned repo, but with metaninfo separately from data.
> > I cloned the repo ( git-clone ~/repo ~/x) ,
> > then I moved ~/x/.git to different place (mv ~/x/.git ~/git);
> > then exported GIT_DIR=~/git; then
> > cd ~/x;
> > But now 'git status' says 'fatal: runstatus must be run in a work tree' .
> > Why ?
> >
> > 'ls $GIT_DIR'  shows
> >  FETCH_HEAD  HEAD  ORIG_HEAD  branches  config
> >  description  hooks  index  info  logs  objects  refs
> > This is ok, no ?
>
> With current git you have to name the repository directory '.git' to
> use it with a working tree.  Some commands work even though the
> repository is named differently, others don't.
>
> In pu is a patch series by me which changes this.  First of all the
> core.bare option is used all the time, the directory name of the
> repository does not matter if core.bare is specified.  Additionally
> you can specify the working tree through the config option
> core.worktree or the environment variable GIT_WORK_TREE.  With this
> you can even work in a subdirectory of the working tree.  But this is
> only in pu and it is not decided yet if this will make it into master,
> even though I hope it will.  Perhaps more people asking for this helps :)
>


Does your patch allow to use absolute filenames and being cwd
 outside of working dir ? I like to use absolute filenames (sometimes.
 Most modern VSCes allow absolute pathnames).

 Thanks
 Yakov