From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian+git@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:13:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow setting GIT_WORK_TREE to "no work tree"
Message-ID: <76718490802062313jdbd0e84xc9f36d703bb86c44@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080207051317.GA32296@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Feb 7, 2008 12:13 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:59:32PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > I was tempted to suggest GIT_WORK_TREE=/dev/null because that is
> > what "diff" uses to mark "this does not even exist", but that
> > feels dirty.
>
> It feels dirty to me, too. I would rather choose something that doesn't
> even look like a path. I think GIT_WORK_TREE=" " is too ugly, too.

Is using something like "__GIT_WORK_TREE_NOT_SET__" that terrible?

j.