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From: Dan Zwell <dzwell@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: $GIT_DIR usage
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:58:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B59F63.8020707@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi, I had a question about $GIT_DIR. That is to say, it doesn't seem to 
work. I am using Git 1.5.2.4. See the following: (all the commands I 
tried besides "git-init" failed).

$ export GIT_DIR="`pwd`/.git_public"
$ git init
warning: templates not found /usr/share//git-core/templates/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/temp/.git_public/
$ echo > new_file
$ git add new_file
fatal: add must be run in a work tree
$ git commit -a
fatal: /usr/bin/git-commit cannot be used without a working tree.
$ git commit
fatal: /usr/bin/git-commit cannot be used without a working tree.
$

Is $GIT_DIR not meant to be used this way? Does it have a different 
purpose / use case, or is this just a bug?

Thanks,
Dan

             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05  9:58 Dan Zwell [this message]
2007-08-05 11:55 ` $GIT_DIR usage Dmitry Kakurin
2007-08-05 12:22   ` Dan Zwell
2007-08-05 12:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 13:02   ` Dan Zwell
2007-08-05 13:41     ` Johannes Schindelin

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