From: Carlos Martín Nieto <carlos@cmartin.tk>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:42:33 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: "--work-tree blah" does not imply "--git-dir blah/.git" or fix misleading error message
Message-ID: <20111130194233.GD12096@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <7vaa7dquva.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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).

   cmn