From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:34:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [Bug] git pull doesn't recognize --work-tree parameter
Message-ID: <7vhb36iz9t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111013194432.GA20082@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>>   $ mkdir .git/tmp
>>   $ cd .git/tmp
>>   $ git rebase
>>   fatal: fatal: /home/peff/local/git/private/libexec/git-core/git-rebase
>>   cannot be used without a working tree.
>> 
>> So that case is already broken. The only change this would make is that
>> what used to fail would not actually take them to the top-level of the
>> working tree[1].
>
> Ugh. It does work if you do:
>
>   mkdir .git/tmp
>   cd .git/tmp
>   GIT_DIR=$PWD/.. git rebase

Actually, this one is OK. Presense of GIT_DIR combined with the lack of
GIT_WORK_TREE means that .git/tmp must be the top of the working tree, so
it is the script's responsibility to populate the directory with what
matches to $GIT_DIR/index between "mkdir" and "rebase" in the above
sequence.

So I suspect we won't have to worry about this case either.