Re: git ate my home directory :-(

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 26, 2013, 15:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20130326150428.GA3847@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130326094844.GA32583@duynguyen-vnpc.dek-tpc.internal>

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 04:48:44PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> Something like this, maybe?
> 
> -- 8< --
> Subject: [PATCH] git.txt: document the implicit working tree setting with GIT_DIR
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git.txt | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
> index 7efaa59..ce55abf 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git.txt
> @@ -671,6 +671,8 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc.
>  	specifies a path to use instead of the default `.git`
>  	for the base of the repository.
>  	The '--git-dir' command-line option also sets this value.
> +	If neither GIT_WORK_TREE nor '--work-tree' is set, the
> +	current directory will become the working tree.

I think this is a good thing to mention, but a few nits:

  1. core.worktree is another way of setting it

  2. This can also be overridden by --bare (at least in "next").

  3. I think having core.bare set will also override this

-Peff