From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:01:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [long] worktree setup cases
Message-ID: <20101021160134.GA3732@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikwApJ2EtJNiOZPHVrz6seJNP-zEqzH_b62ksLf@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Speaking of which, it is not clear to me that core.worktree should
>> fall under the forbidden case discussed above.  If it does, what is
>> the point of making it configurable?
>
> I was not the one who introduced core.worktree, so I can't really
> tell. Maybe less keystrokes?

Yeah, it seems you're totally right. :(

So in clarifying the semantics, core.worktree without GIT_DIR should
be forbidden.  But consider this a feature request.  By the time
core.worktree has been read, it is obvious what the GIT_DIR was
supposed to be:

References:

 - v0 (GIT_TOP_DIR):
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/38382
 - v1 (GIT_WORK_DIR):
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/41902
 - v2 (GIT_WORK_TREE):
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/42416