git ate my home directory :-(

Hi!

Today I've discovered that on the build server my home directory was empty. A post-mortem analysis showed that the git-clean command I've added to my kernel build script is the evil doer. In my scripts I'm setting GIT_DIR to use git-fetch and git-reset without changing the current working directory all the time. But calling git-clean with GIT_DIR acts basically like a "rm -Rf .".

Here a small demo:

test@linux:~> git --version git version 1.8.1.4 test@linux:~> ls test@linux:~> touch a b c d e test@linux:~> mkdir x test@linux:~> cd x test@linux:~/x> git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/test/x/.git/ test@linux:~/x> cd .. test@linux:~> ls a b c d e x test@linux:~> export GIT_DIR=/home/test/x/.git/ test@linux:~> git clean -d -f Removing a Removing b Removing c Removing d Removing e Removing x/ test@linux:~> ls test@linux:~> test@linux:~> # :-(

Is this behavior intended?

Thanks, //richard