From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 04:28:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] require-work-tree wants more than what its name says
Message-ID: <20110505042805.GA10547@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110505042319.GA10243@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:23:19AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> > Add a function "require_work_tree_exists" that implements the check
> > this function originally intended (this is so that third-party scripts
> > that rely on the current behaviour do not have to get broken), and
> > update all the in-tree users to use it.
> 
> Overall, I think this is a good thing to do. And for the existing
> working cases (i.e., when you are in the repo) it should be a no-op.  It

Sorry, this should have been the more specific: "i.e., when are you are
in the _working tree_".

-Peff