From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:13:39 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT_DIR=. for hooks?
Message-ID: <7v7hrvyx4s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B44965F.8040803@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> I can unset GIT_DIR or set WORK_TREE, of course,

That is not just an acceptable but _the_ right way to write hooks that
touch the files in the work tree.  In earlier versions of git, a git-dir
in $PWD was not found without GIT_DIR=. and hooks are supposed to work
across versions of git, so this behaviour got stuck.