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Re: BUG: "--work-tree blah" does not imply "--git-dir blah/.git" or fix misleading error message

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Carlos Martín Nieto <carlos@cmartin.tk>
Date
Nov 30, 2011, 19:42 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> subdirectory "blah/.git"), but I do not think this is likely to change, as
> I suspect that people and scripts are relying on the current behaviour to
> be able to do something like this:
> 
>     cd /pub/scm/git/git.git ;# this is a bare repository
>     mkdir /var/tmp/git
>     git --work-tree=/var/tmp/git checkout
>

This is in fact the way that many (or from what I can see the most popular) tutorials for abusing git as a deployment system tell you to run it (though more often than not setting GIT_WORKTREE in the environment).

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  3. John TwilleyNov 30, 2011
  4. Carlos Martín NietoDec 1, 2011
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