Re: [PATCH] emacs: make 'git-status' work with separate git dirs

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de> writes:
>>
>>> when trying 'M-x git-status' in a submodule created with recent (1.7.5+)
>>> git, the command fails with
>>>
>>> | ... is not a git working tree
>>>
>>> This is caused by creating submodules with '--separate-git-dir' but
>>> still checking for a working tree by testing for a '.git' directory.
>>>
>>> The patch fixes this by relaxing the existing detection a little bit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
>>> ---
>>
>> This script already relies on the assumption that nobody sane would
>> create a directory named ".git" that is not a git repository, and
>> this loosens the assumption that nobody would create a file named
>> ".git", either.  So I would think it is a sane thing to do, but just
>> in case if the area expert has better ideas, I am forwarding it.
>>
>> Ack?
>
> Sure, that's fine.