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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Fyn Fynn <fynfynn@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in 1.6.6 with reset --hard and $GIT_WORK_TREE
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:38:28 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0912290038u77a5e83cqe2f3cbfab05af263@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a04eebf0912282247p6975a96el8076cb39378bd104@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/29/09, Fyn Fynn <fynfynn@gmail.com> wrote:
> The exact same git reset command that works in 1.6.4, fails to work
>  under 1.6.6:
>
>  $ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/rawdata/ GIT_DIR=$HOME/rawdata/.git
>  /usr/local/git-1.6.6/bin/git reset --hard
>  fatal: hard reset requires a work tree
>  $ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/rawdata/ GIT_DIR=$HOME/rawdata/.git
>  /usr/local/git-1.6.4/bin/git reset --hard
>  HEAD is now at 77ec73f...
>
>  What gives?

A recent patch by Jeff (952dfc6 (reset: improve worktree safety valves
- 2009-12-04)) makes sure that "git reset --hard" will not work
outside worktree (which is right). Where was your current directory,
inside $GIT_WORK_TREE or outside?
-- 
Duy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-29  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-29  6:47 Possible bug in 1.6.6 with reset --hard and $GIT_WORK_TREE Fyn Fynn
2009-12-29  8:12 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-29  8:38 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2009-12-29 11:04   ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-12-29 11:36     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-12-29 21:09       ` Fyn Fynn
2009-12-29 21:50         ` Jeff King
2009-12-30  8:47           ` [PATCH] reset: unbreak hard resets with GIT_WORK_TREE Jeff King
2009-12-30 17:54             ` Junio C Hamano

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