From: Eric Raible Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:04:29 GMT Subject: Should 'git status' understand a .git containing "gitdir: dir"? Message-ID: <4E0C3C1D.1050406@nextest.com> The following sequence sets up a trivial repo that uses "gitdir:": $ git init gitdir-test $ cd gitdir-test $ mv .git real-git-dir $ echo "gitdir: real-git-dir" > .git $ git status Fine so far. But git-status shows that "real-git-dir" is untracked: $ git status -sb ## Initial commit on master ?? real-git-dir/ Which strikes one as a bit inconsistent (since other pars of git-status knows to look in real-git-dir to find the index). Sorry - no time to investigate.