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Re: [PATCH] Export GIT_DIR after setting it

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 15, 2008, 17:23 UTC
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"martin f. krafft" <madduck@madduck.net> writes:
> The only problem I see now is when an external command (or the shell
> script) can't properly deal with GIT_DIR being set, but then that's
> a whole different bug.

One thing that we did not have to worry about when git-sh-setup was invented is GIT_WORK_TREE and its cousin core.worktree. When the user uses GIT_DIR _but_ wants to work from a subdirectory of the checked out work tree, the user _must_ tell git where the top of the work tree is; in other words, setting and exporting only GIT_DIR is a misconfiguration.

I have a suspicion that "the whole different bug" is what bit you -- perhaps some places need to also set and export GIT_WORK_TREE as well when the do GIT_DIR.

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  6. martin f. krafftMay 15, 2008
  7. Björn SteinbrinkMay 15, 2008
  8. martin f. krafftMay 16, 2008
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