From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:10:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow setting GIT_WORK_TREE to "no work tree"
Message-ID: <7vmyqdnndh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080207051317.GA32296@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> In fact, the more I think about it, that makes sense. WORK_TREE munging
> just happens to be the only special behavior right now that depends on
> whether the user manually set GIT_DIR. But what we really want to
> communicate to later code is not "I have corrected this particular
> munge" but "don't run any special behavior as a result of this variable
> being set."

Yeah, that makes sense.