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Re: how to access working tree from .git dir?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 7, 2007, 20:43 UTC
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"Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes:
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> In messsing around with hooks, I've discovered that not all hooks are
> run in the same environment.  In particular, the current working
> directory in the post-receive hook (maybe others as well) is the GIT_DIR
> (.git) directory, instead of the root of the working tree (as in
> pre-commit).

It is not even "instead of"; that's the only sane thing to do for post-receive, which is in response to git-push and usually used for a bare repository, i.e. without any work tree.

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