Re: [PATCH 3/3] setup: always honor GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree

From: Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz>
Date: Jan 19, 2011, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <4D373296.6030101@seznam.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20110119124230.GD23222@burratino>

On 11-01-19 13:42, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Unfortunately the existence of GIT_WORK_TREE makes it tempting to
> use without setting GIT_DIR.

Maybe I'm asking nonsense, but why should I always use both? On the command line, I either cd to my (alternate) working tree and use GIT_DIR only or the other way round. I used both several times when I wanted to compare the (normal) working tree with another commit using something better than git-diff (git-difftool didn't work for me on cygwin).

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