From: Jack Bates <bk874k@nottheoilrig.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:19:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug? clone ignores --git-dir
Message-ID: <91fa0f24-fd11-a0ff-c258-c0f480910ade@nottheoilrig.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh82pv6qi.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On 2019-11-27 5:33 a.m., Junio C Hamano wrote:
> An intentional design decision (and it may be an unfortunate one by
> now [*1*]) was to have the GIT_DIR (hence --git-dir) talk about the
> *source side* of the clone, not the destination, e.g.

Ah ha, the following does what I want, regardless of 
`GIT_DIR`/`GIT_WORK_TREE`:

> git init repository
> GIT_DIR=bogus GIT_WORK_TREE=bogus git --work-tree directory clone repository directory/.git

Thank you!