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[BUG?] worktree setup broken in subdirs with git alias

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Jan 7, 2016, 07:15 UTC
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<568E10A7.5050606@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Hi there,

sorry I can't dig deeper now, but the worktree code from next seems to get confused now as soon as you cd to a subdir of a worktree (other than the main worktree) and use an alias:

git help ss `git ss' is aliased to `status -s -b' [mjg@skimbleshanks Biomath-WS15 (exam $)]✓ git status -s -b ## exam [mjg@skimbleshanks Biomath-WS15 (exam $)]✓ git ss fatal: internal error: work tree has already been set Current worktree: /home/mjg/Teaching/LUK New worktree: /home/mjg/Teaching/LUK/Biomath-WS15

This is inside the subdir "Biomath-WS15" of the worktree residing in ".../LUK".

It wasn't like that last year ;)

Something about setting GIT_DIR and the like in the environment must have changed (for aliases), badly interacting with the worktree code.

Michael
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