Re: git ate my home directory :-(

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 25, 2013, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7vboa7w2vm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130325214343.GF1414@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> Richard Weinberger wrote:
>
>> In my scripts I'm setting GIT_DIR to use git-fetch and git-reset without changing the
>> current working directory all the time.
>
> Yeah, for historical reasons GIT_WORK_TREE defaults to $(pwd) when
> GIT_DIR is explicitly set.

And it *WILL* be that way til the end of time. Unless you are at the top level of your working tree, you are supposed to tell where the top level is with GIT_WORK_TREE when you use GIT_DIR. Always.

And that is the answer you should be giving here, not implicit stuff, which is an implementation detail to help aliases. I do not know how things will break when the end user sets and exports it to the environment, and I do not think we would want to make any promise on how it works.