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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 12, 2009, 18:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20091012183519.GA10686@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091012142017.vrs4v2cc8wgws8g4@webmail.demarque.qc.ca>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:20:17PM -0400, sylvain@demarque.qc.ca wrote:

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> >It's more of "a note to the future generation of developers": "Hey guys,
> >we didn't need that working, but if you have a night to spare could you
> >please finish that?"
> 
> Ok, then I won't wait for it to work. I will dive in Git's code and
> play the "future generation of developers" part... some day. ;-)
> 
> Thank you! :-)

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 .

But it does not work if you try to make things work automatically:

  $ cd /
  $ 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