From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:23:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git rev-parse --git-dir does report yield relative path to git directory, per documentation
Message-ID: <20120517182304.GA14367@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfwayrcen.fsf@junio.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi,

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:

>> Per this advice in git-rev-parse(1):
>>
>>      Show $GIT_DIR if defined. Otherwise show the path to the .git
>> directory, relative to the current directory.
>> ...
[...]
> I am not sure what we were smoking.

Yeah, that text is pretty confusing.  Thanks for finding it.

The intent was:

	Show the path to the git repository database (usually $GIT_DIR or
	".git").  When relative, this path is relative to the current
	directory.

The point of that last part is that this is relative to the cwd when
rev-parse is called and not relative to the top level of the worktree.