From: Martin Nicolay <m.nicolay@osm-ag.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug: setting GIT_DIR to $(git rev-parse --git-dir) changes behavior
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:54:59 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.2102260846280.20742@cpza.bfz-tzou.qr> (raw)
On Thursday 2021-02-25 19:29, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The root of the working tree is at /tmp/t/, the repository at
> /tmp/t/.git/, and you are in the foo/ subdirectory. When you ask
> "where is the top level of the working tree in this state, because
> you do not have GIT_DIR or GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables, you
> are asking Git to "discover" both the .git/ directory and the top of
> the working tree, by starting at the current directory,
> i.e. /tmp/t/foo, which is where you are.
*facepalm* The part about GIT_DIR setting the work-tree in addition to
the repository I hadn't read. How embarrasing.
I apoligize for my bad reading skills and wasting you time.
Thanks
Martin
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2021-02-26 7:54 Martin Nicolay [this message]
2021-02-27 21:06 ` bug: setting GIT_DIR to $(git rev-parse --git-dir) changes behavior Junio C Hamano
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2021-03-01 8:08 Martin Nicolay
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