From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:14:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] worktree: provide better prefix to go back to original cwd
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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Are there any examples to illustrate whether teaching --show-prefix to
>> do what your --worktree-to-cwd does would be a good or bad idea?
>> (Just curious.)
>
> Do these additions interact well with the notion of "we are in the working
> tree" vs "we are outside the working tree"?  Even when we happen to know
> via GIT_WORK_TREE that the root of the working tree is /var/tmp/junk, we
> should correctly diagnse that we are outside the working tree when we are
> in /var/tmp/, and require_work_tree should say "no you are not allowed to
> do this", no?

It should work as it does now. I don't change prefix calculation and
chdir() behavior. So when you're at /var/tmp, require_work_tree should
say no.
-- 
Duy