From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:43:09 GMT
Subject: Re: how to access working tree from .git dir?
Message-ID: <7v642m436q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1189120800.6203.23.camel@beauty>

"Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes:

> 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.