From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:15:09 GMT
Subject: Re: inconsistent detached worktree handling: several bugs
Message-ID: <8aa486160805070115k676b03a6s59d3a74d48d44254@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080505160643.GA28318@lapse.madduck.net>

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:06 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> I am playing around with detached worktrees and have identified
>  a number of bugs in the path handling. Specifically, it seems that
>  while git-status and git-add/git-rm are consistent with respect to
>  each other, they expose different behaviour in different scenarios.
>  git-diff, on the other hand, seems broken with respect to worktree
>  handling.
>
>  Let me run you through what I did, bugs are
>  identified with ###BUG. Output is prefixed with #, which should make
>  it easier to cut-n-paste to reproduce
>

I don't know if it resolves all the issues, but:

- If run outside of the working copy => equivalent to run it from the
top of the wc.
  (for the normal case it just fails)

- It is not recommended (supported?) to have the repository inside the
working directory
  (unless it is .git, of course)

Santi