From: Yaroslav Nikitenko <metst13@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git-dir requires work-tree; documentation improvements for working directory
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 17:40:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+RLzGCtp2T=8DG74geBs67X5vUvhwRP4FMZ6MJv+E+Pj=YbWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Dear git users and maintainers,
I use git to manage my dotfiles with this command:
git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ --work-tree=/home/yaroslav
When reading documentation, I noticed two issues.
1) The command doesn't work without --work-tree (even from the top
level directory, which is my home directory).
[~]$ git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ status
fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree
I don't have any configuration or environment variables for work-tree
(as warned here,
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cRqkzPzNX8UN4OcgEOOKbtZRLCjNNiZsOVkGBy0pvsEkQ@mail.gmail.com/).
In `man git` for git-dir it says "If you are not at the top-level
directory of the working tree, you should tell Git where the top-level
of the working tree is" ("If"), the same is quoted in a recent thread
(https://lore.kernel.org/git/88D2A179-806F-4321-828A-359692E646B1@gmail.com/)
I'm using git version 2.30.0 on the most recent Arch Linux.
2) In the man documentation for git > git-dir it's written
"It can be an absolute path or relative path to current working directory."
I think this can be confused with work-tree. I suggest removing the
word 'working' (and probably add an article 'the' before the
'current', but I'm not a native speaker).
I can see that the expression "working directory" is used throughout
the man page of git, and it is used ambiguously (sometimes it means
the current directory, sometimes git working directory).
I don't subscribe to the mailing list but hope that I'll receive the replies.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Best regards,
Yaroslav Nikitenko
next reply other threads:[~2021-01-02 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-02 14:40 Yaroslav Nikitenko [this message]
2021-01-02 19:12 ` git-dir requires work-tree; documentation improvements for working directory Felipe Contreras
2021-01-02 19:44 ` Yaroslav Nikitenko
2021-01-02 22:02 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-03 9:12 ` Yaroslav Nikitenko
2021-01-03 11:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-04 23:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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