Re: [PATCH] Move git send-email cover letter temporary file to $GIT_DIR

> On Dec 22, 2007 5:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Dec 22, 2007 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> Don't you have $repo (an instance of Git) at that point?  You
>> >> should be able to ask repo_path() about it, shouldn't you?
>> >
>> > Isn't git-send-email still useful outside a Git repo?
>>
>> Then why does it run "rev-parse --git-dir"?
>
> I'm suggesting that it should still function just fine without being
> inside a repo, so it should adequately handle "rev-parse --git-dir"
> returning 128.