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From: Ben Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Bisect needing to be at repo top-level?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:46:17 +1000
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On 19/9/13 23:15, Ben Aveling wrote:
> On 18/9/13 05:20, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> writes:
>>> why do we allow running git-checkout(1)
>>> from a subdirectory?
>> We may want to check the condition and forbid such a checkout.
> It would probably make sense.
> It might also make sense to relax the check in git bisect somewhat. 
> Currently, even "git bisect help" insists that "You need to run this 
> command from the toplevel of the working tree."

Probably also worth pointing out that whether or not the current shell 
is at toplevel, there can be other processes active in subdirectories.

     Regards, Ben