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Re: how to access working tree from .git dir?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 7, 2007, 23:42 UTC
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Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net> writes:
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> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 15:12 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net> writes:
>> 
>> > OK. Fair enough.  Maybe it would be good to note in git-sh-setup.sh that
>> > many of the supplied functions will not work when called from within
>> > $GIT_DIR.
>> 
>> Sorry, "supplied functions"?  Care to clarify with a patch?
>
> I guess really just the cd_to_topdir() function.  It will silently fail
> when run from within $GIT_DIR.
Ah, I see what you meant.

I think you probably are supposed to check with is_bare_repository or something before calling that, as asking to cd to toplevel implies you know there is such a thing as toplevel ;-)

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