Re: $GIT_DIR usage

[Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>]

I think you also need to set GIT_WORK_TREE.
This way Git will know the root of directories that it controls.

- Dmitry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Zwell" <dzwell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, 5 August 2007 2:58
Subject: $GIT_DIR usage


> 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,