From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:52:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-init: set up GIT_DIR/workdir if GIT_WORK_DIR is set
Message-ID: <20070312125207.GA16335@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20070312121226.GB2268@always.joy.eth.net>

Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:53:50PM +0100, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> > git-init will always put an absolute path in
> > GIT_DIR/workdir, relative paths are resolved from the
> > directory git-init was called from.
> 
> Does that mean I can't move my GIT trees around without changing a 
> config entry? What is that an improvement?
Only when using $GIT_DIR.  $GIT_DIR/workdir is only the default value
for $GIT_WORK_DIR.