From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:54:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git reset --hard in .git causes a checkout in that directory
Message-ID: <7vk4x0k059.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091206041839.GB23983@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I actually considered that, too, when writing the patch. But that would
> be inconsistent with all of the other commands that use SETUP_WORK_TREE.
> For example:
>
>   $ git init && cd .git && git clean
>   fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree
>
> So I think we are better to be consistent with the other commands. If
> somebody wants to make a separate patch to discover the work tree while
> in the $GIT_DIR and chdir to it, that should then be applied to all
> commands.  I'm not opposed to it, but I also don't see it as a
> particularly pressing need.

Yes, we would of course want to do this consistently.  I haven't followed
the codepath yet, but I suspect this will end up being connected with
running "rev-parse --show-cdup" inside .git/ of a non-bare repository.