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From: Thorsten von Eicken <tve@rightscale.com>
Subject: Re: git status doesn't ignore GIT_DIR directory?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 21:41:02 -0700
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On 5/22/2015 7:22 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:03:48PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> As far as I know, GIT_DIR was prepared as a mechanism to point at
>> another .git directory that does not live inside the working tree, not
>> as a mechanism to rename it to arbitrary name. E.g.
>>
>>  $ git init
>>  $ mv .git .svn
>>  $ GIT_DIR=$(pwd)/.svn ; export GIT_DIR
>>
>> is not expected to work.
>
> ++
> +Note that if GIT_DIR is set explicitly to a directory inside working
> +tree, the directory name must be ".git".
This is not at all what I was hoping to hear, but thanks for the response.
Thorsten