Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> writes:
> 
> > Appears to be a bug in git. Seems that it's assuming GIT_INDEX_FILE is
> > relative to the top of the worktree and not to the CWD.
> 
> I think that has always been the case.  You can always specify it as
> relative to the top.  Of course, you can use absolute.

I think it *has* always been that way, but is there anything in the
documentation that indicates this is the case? This could well be best
fixed in the documentation.

Hmm, at least GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY also behaves this way.
(OTOH, GIT_DIR does not behave this way).

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