From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:45:41 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: "--work-tree blah" does not imply "--git-dir blah/.git" or fix misleading error message
Message-ID: <7v1uspqqyy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111130194233.GD12096@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>

Carlos Martín Nieto <carlos@cmartin.tk> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> subdirectory "blah/.git"), but I do not think this is likely to change, as
>> I suspect that people and scripts are relying on the current behaviour to
>> be able to do something like this:
>> 
>>     cd /pub/scm/git/git.git ;# this is a bare repository
>>     mkdir /var/tmp/git
>>     git --work-tree=/var/tmp/git checkout
>
> This is in fact the way that many (or from what I can see the most
> popular) tutorials for abusing git as a deployment system tell you to
> run it (though more often than not setting GIT_WORKTREE in the
> environment).

Heh, *ab*using is a good description if they really mean to use it as a
deployment system. For one thing it won't do anything a proper deployment
should do if the target directory is not empty ;-)