From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:59:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure proper setup of git_dir for git-hash-object
Message-ID: <7v3adyffax.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1235851009-16739-1-git-send-email-newren@gmail.com>

newren@gmail.com writes:

> Without this patch:
> $ mkdir tmp
> $ cd tmp/
> $ git init --bare
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/newren/floss-development/git/tmp/
> $ echo hi | git hash-object -w --stdin
> error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename .git/objects/45: No such file or directory
>
> fatal: Unable to add stdin to database
> $ echo hi | git --git-dir=. hash-object -w --stdin
> 45b983be36b73c0788dc9cbcb76cbb80fc7bb057

Does the patched version work without -w option?  Should it?