Re: git status doesn't ignore GIT_DIR directory?

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

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.


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Thorsten von Eicken <tve@rightscale.com> wrote:
> I renamed my .git directory to _git and I'm surprised that git status thinks
> that it's an untracked file:
>
> $ GIT_DIR=_git git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
>
> Untracked files:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>
>         _git/
>
> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
> This doesn't seem to make sense, shouldn't git ignore whatever $GIT_DIR
> points to? Or is there some other magic option I need to use for it to do
> what I expect?
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