From: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:28:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reinstate the old behaviour when GIT_DIR is set and GIT_WORK_TREE is unset
Message-ID: <20070810112821.GA11026@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6mbu8iv.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hello Junio,

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:12:53 +0100
> 
> The old behaviour was to unilaterally default to the cwd is the work tree
> when GIT_DIR was set, but GIT_WORK_TREE wasn't, no matter if we are inside
> the GIT_DIR, or if GIT_DIR is actually something like ../../../.git.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
> 
>  Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>  > I think I sent a patch for that, but was negative about it, even if I 
>  > promised not to question your decision.
> 
>  Yes you did.  Here is a refresher with an affected test
>  adjusted.
> 
>  We already have a few changes that worked around the semantics
>  change by either setting GIT_WORK_TREE or cd'ing up, but I
>  think they should not need to be reverted.
> 
>  It makes more sense to keep the old semantics -- people who use
>  unusual GIT_DIR setting should know what they are doing, and
>  the new GIT_WORK_TREE feature (and core.worktree) would give
>  them better control.  We just should not break existing users
>  that set GIT_DIR and nothing else.  Which means I need another
>  rewrite on the Release Notes, and probably yet another rc
>  cycle.

I don't know if you planed to make 

	git checkout-index --prefix=/tmp/tra -a

work (again) in a bare repo.  Probably not, so it's no surprise that it
still doesn't work.

Best regards
Uwe

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Uwe Kleine-König

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