Re: [PATCH] checkout-index needs a working tree

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 10, 2007, 00:55 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd4xww6mr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708100129200.21857@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> That is _completely_ expected.  If it is a bare repository, you can _only_ 
> override that check by GIT_WORK_TREE or --work-tree.
>
> But I have to wonder: if you want to use git checkout-index, which is a 
> work-tree operation, why did you mark it as bare to begin with?

I do not necessarily think --prefix=untar/it/here/ is a work tree operation.

Perhaps we probably are better off if we add something that says specifying GIT_DIR alone means you are at the top of work tree (to resurrect the traditional behaviour), to alleviate fallouts like this and the other cvsserver one? If one does not like that traditional behaviour, the new GIT_WORK_TREE support can be used override it.