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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in 1.6.6 with reset --hard and $GIT_WORK_TREE
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:38:28 +0700
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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