Re: Shouldn't git-ls-files --others use $GIT_DIR?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 19, 2006, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20061119183756.GZ7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860611190537q77c8a358m184377a21d5a3e11@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:37:42PM CET, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

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> If I do
> 
> GIT_DIR=$HOME/projects/<project>/.git git ls-files --others
> 
> from, e.g., $HOME, I get a list of all the files in $HOME and its
> subdirectories that aren't in said git repository.  Shouldn't --others
> use $GIT_DIR, instead of ".", or am I missing something here?

git-ls-files --others lists untracked files in the current directory by comparing it to the index stored in $GIT_DIR/index and listing files present in the current directory but not in the index.

GIT_DIR is a path to the Git repository the commands should work with, but if they work on working tree, they look at the current directory for it.

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