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Re: inconsistent detached worktree handling: several bugs

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MKmartin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date
May 7, 2008, 19:32 UTC
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also sprach Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> [2008.05.07.2020 +0100]:
> So it is run inside the worktree ( $workingdir/.fgits/zsh ) and the
> repository is inside the worktree.
Doh, I should engage brain more often. :)

So this makes sense. What does not make sense is that git-diff doesn't appear to work with any of this...

> I read it in this list but I don't find it now. Maybe because of
> the special handling of .git does not apply to an arbitrary path.

I think it actually does. But in my case, it's also .gitignored in addition.

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