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Re: [PATCH] make git barf when an alias changes environment variables

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 13, 2007, 05:21 UTC
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What does this patch do when you do this?
	: Because I usually work with this repository...
	$ GIT_DIR=$some_repository
        $ export GIT_DIR
        : Then much later, I happen to visit another repository
        : to take a peek...
	$ cd $somewhere_else
        $ git --git-dir .git some-command

I think --git-dir request on the command line is primarily to allow overriding whatever the user has in the environment as the fallback default, so if the patch makes it barf that is not very nice.
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  1. make git barf when an alias changes environment variablesMatthias Lederhofer, Jun 8, 2007
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