From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:20:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git ate my home directory :-(
Message-ID: <7v38vjw28v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5150CB34.1030008@nod.at>

Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> writes:

> Okay, I have to set GIT_DIR _and_ GIT_WORK_TREE to make my scripts safe again?
> I've always set only GIT_DIR because it just worked (till today...).

That means you never run your script inside a subdirectory ;-)

If your $GIT_DIR is tied to a single working tree, a simpler way
would be to add

	[core]
		worktree = /path/to/the/work/tree/

to $GIT_DIR/config.