From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:19:25 GMT
Subject: Re: How to make public repository GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init Command not found.
Message-ID: <20081118231925.GW2932@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <138223.4849.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to make a public repository. I followed the instructions in gitcore-tutorial. I typed "GIT_DIR=my-git.git git init" per instruction. But, I got command not found. I do not think this is the correct command. How should I do? I use C-Shell.
> 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man7/gitcore-tutorial.html
> 
> %mkdir my-git.git
> %GIT_DIR=my-git.git git init
> 
> GIT_DIR=my-git.git: Command not found.

Instead you can do:

  $ git --git-dir=my-git.git init

The --git-dir option does the same thing that GIT_DIR= was doing
in a Bourne shell.

-- 
Shawn.