From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 18:26:45 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir
Message-ID: <20160517182645.GA27396@kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy478wptr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> writes:
> 
> > Appears to be a bug in git. Seems that it's assuming GIT_INDEX_FILE is
> > relative to the top of the worktree and not to the CWD.
> 
> I think that has always been the case.  You can always specify it as
> relative to the top.  Of course, you can use absolute.

I think it *has* always been that way, but is there anything in the
documentation that indicates this is the case? This could well be best
fixed in the documentation.

Hmm, at least GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY also behaves this way.
(OTOH, GIT_DIR does not behave this way).

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