Re: Should 'git status' understand a .git containing "gitdir: dir"?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 30, 2011, 15:49 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsjqrqpzn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E0C3C1D.1050406@nextest.com>

Eric Raible <raible@nextest.com> writes:

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> The following sequence sets up a trivial repo that uses "gitdir:":
>
> $ git init gitdir-test
> $ cd gitdir-test
> $ mv .git real-git-dir
> $ echo "gitdir: real-git-dir" > .git
> $ git status
>
> Fine so far.  But git-status shows that "real-git-dir" is untracked:
>
> $ git status -sb
> ## Initial commit on master
> ?? real-git-dir/
>
> Which strikes one as a bit inconsistent (since other pars of git-status
> knows to look in real-git-dir to find the index).
>
> Sorry - no time to investigate.

You could even have a real git dir of some completely unrelated repository in your working tree, it will get reported as untracked, and you would probably not want to track its contents, either (or you might want to if you are trying to be funny, I dunno).

So I do not see there is anything to investigate. What you observed looks perfectly expected to me, except for the "mv .git real-git-dir" bit that makes a situation that confuses yourself (but not git).