From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:15:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git ate my home directory :-(
Message-ID: <20130325221512.GI1414@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5150CB34.1030008@nod.at>

Richard Weinberger wrote:

> Okay, I have to set GIT_DIR _and_ GIT_WORK_TREE to make my scripts safe again?
> I've always set only GIT_DIR because it just worked (till today...).

chdir-ing into the git repo without setting any GIT_* vars is probably
the simplest way to go.