From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:19:08 GMT
Subject: Re: env GIT_WORK_TREE ignored by git describe --dirty
Message-ID: <20190128181908.GA11337@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANMbfitE+5HLo1sMowr5erJGwzLVv3Z9sHKEgvOeso5OeWVrBg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 07:52:24PM -0500, Moocowmoo . wrote:

> git describe --dirty shows dirty when cwd not repo work directory.
> 
> Confirmed by osse on freenode irc #git
> 
>   ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp$ pwd
>   /home/ubuntu/tmp
>   ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp$ git clone https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs.git
>   ubuntu@wrk:~/tmp$ GIT_DIR=/home/ubuntu/tmp/go-ipfs/.git
> GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/ubuntu/tmp/go-ipfs git describe --dirty
>   v0.4.18-381-gca77ecc76-dirty

It sounds like this this is the same bug being discussed in:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20190126204951.42455-1-koraktor@gmail.com/

-Peff