{"thread":{"id":"26995","subject":"windows Git.pm setting GIT_DIR?","startedAt":"2011-04-05T18:00:43Z","lastAt":"2011-04-05T18:00:43Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Dylan Alex Simon"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"165198","messageId":"20110405180043.GA10878@datura.dylex.net","threadId":"26995","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"windows Git.pm setting GIT_DIR?","fromName":"Dylan Alex Simon","fromEmail":"dylan@dylex.net","sentAt":"2011-04-05T18:00:43Z","receivedAt":"2011-04-05T18:00:43Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dylan@dylex.net","avatar":null},"body":"We are attempting to make a perl application using Git.pm run on windows.  One\nof the things we do is initialize \n\n        Git->repository(Directory => $some_other_directory);\n\nThis works fine on unix, but on windows the $some_other_directory seems to be\nignored.  This seems to be because _cmd_exec or its equivalent to set GIT_DIR\nand chdir does not exist in the windows code-path in _command_common_pipe.  Am\nI missing something that should make this work, or is this just not supported?\n(Sorry, I know little about windows and trying to interpret problems others\nare having.)\n"}]}