Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:20:17PM -0400, sylvain@demarque.qc.ca wrote:
>
> I think that it sort of works, actually. It seems to do OK if you do
> something like:
>
>   $ GIT_DIR=/path/to/store/repo; export GIT_DIR
>   $ GIT_WORK_TREE=/; export GIT_WORK_TREE
>   $ git init
>   $ cd /etc/whatever
>   $ git add .
>
> So probably the bug is in detecting the location of the work tree when
> it is not explicitly given. You can use the explicit style as a
> workaround for now.
>
> -Peff