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> Hi Brandon,
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Brandon Williams wrote:
>
> > On 06/08, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Brandon Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 06/08, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Back to the worktree_dir variable.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think part of the confusion here is that it may be left alone even
> > > > > when there is a worktree. For example, if we are already in the
> > > > > top-level directory. Or if the worktree somehow points to a different
> > > > > directory than the one containing the .git/ directory.
> > > > >
> > > > > Therefore, I renamed this variable to `cdup_dir` to reflect the fact
> > > > > that it is only touched if Git determines that it is in a subdirectory
> > > > > of the directory containing the .git/ directory.
> > > >
> > > > Ok, maybe I'm just not following but just from reading the variable name
> > > > I can't really understand what 'cdup_dir' means.
> > >
> > > My idea would be that this is in line with the
> > >
> > > git rev-parse --show-cdup
> > >
> > > incantation.
> >
> > Ah ok, 'cdup' just doesn't really mean much to me. Is it supposed to
> > stand for something?
>
> Yes, it stands for "change directory up", as in `cd ../../`. ;-)