From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:04:49 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] introduce GIT_WORK_DIR environment variable Message-ID: <7vodmzv6dq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > So let's say that you have a git repository for tracking all that. The > "working tree" for that git repository would be your home directory. > > Now, imagine that you *also* want to track something else in git, that you > *also* have in your home directory. Say your ".bashrc" files etc. They > have nothing to do with your music tracking setup, so you don't want to > track it in the same git repository, and you want to have a totally > different .git/index file for those. But again, the *working*tree* is > actually your home directory. That is a good example usage schenario; we would need to think about what to do with .gitignore (and .gitattributes if we will have that in-tree), though.