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git status doesn't ignore GIT_DIR directory?

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TEThorsten von Eicken <tve@rightscale.com>
Date
May 23, 2015, 01:03 UTC
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<555FD1EA.2060706@rightscale.com>

I renamed my .git directory to _git and I'm surprised that git status thinks that it's an untracked file:

$ GIT_DIR=_git git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Untracked files:
   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
         _git/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

This doesn't seem to make sense, shouldn't git ignore whatever $GIT_DIR points to? Or is there some other magic option I need to use for it to do what I expect?

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