From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:47:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] require-work-tree wants more than what its name says
Message-ID: <7vhb9afox9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110504085014.GA9739@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Check out some of the older scripts in contrib/examples. Several of them
> require_work_tree, but do not cd_to_toplevel immediately; instead, they
> do it much later for some specific bits.

Another datapoint I found was "clean".

It used to say "you have to be inside work tree" in the scripted version.
Imagine what builtin/clean.c does today?  It has NEED_WORK_TREE bit in the
command table in git.c and that bit means "We need to have a work tree
that we can later chdir to if we wanted to".