From: Dan Zwell <dzwell@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:22:54 GMT
Subject: Re: $GIT_DIR usage
Message-ID: <46B5C11E.4000101@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <678E8953ECEB4B72A99DEA2137B05823@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>

Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
> I think you also need to set GIT_WORK_TREE.
> This way Git will know the root of directories that it controls.
> 
> - Dmitry
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Zwell" <dzwell@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
> To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Sunday, 5 August 2007 2:58
> Subject: $GIT_DIR usage
> 
> 
>> Hi, I had a question about $GIT_DIR. That is to say, it doesn't seem 
>> to work. I am using Git 1.5.2.4. See the following: (all the commands 
>> I tried besides "git-init" failed).
>>
>> $ export GIT_DIR="`pwd`/.git_public"
>> $ git init
>> warning: templates not found /usr/share//git-core/templates/
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/temp/.git_public/
>> $ echo > new_file
>> $ git add new_file
>> fatal: add must be run in a work tree
>> $ git commit -a
>> fatal: /usr/bin/git-commit cannot be used without a working tree.
>> $ git commit
>> fatal: /usr/bin/git-commit cannot be used without a working tree.
>> $
>>
>> Is $GIT_DIR not meant to be used this way? Does it have a different 
>> purpose / use case, or is this just a bug?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
> 

Thank you. I also had to upgrade Git to the as-yet unreleased version 
(this variable doesn't exist in the current stable release), but what 
you said makes sense and seems like it should work.

Dan