Re: [PATCH 5/8] work-trees are allowed inside a git-dir

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2007, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejity3h8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707271957250.14781@racer.site>

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

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> It is allowed to call
>
> 	$ git --git-dir=../ --work-tree=. bla
>
> when you really want to.  In this case, you are both in the git directory
> and in the working tree.
>
> The earlier handling of this situation was seriously bogus.  For regular
> working tree operations, it checked if inside git dir.  That makes no
> sense, of course, since the check should be for a work tree, and nothing
> else.
>
> Fix that.

I do not doubt this patch makes the above command line to work better, but I have to wonder how that layout is useful. Care to give a use case or two in the commit log message?