From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:44:05 GMT
Subject: Re: "git pull" doesn't respect --work-tree parameter
Message-ID: <AANLkTimM9Ah+D6uYnOuZDjYzKfN2-YVArOAwegO9dbSD@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinGPJRQCOVz5JeqL4xnUG9V=5fkJhz6C5Mi1A3o@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am trying to use the following command:
>>>
>>> git '--git-dir=/path/to/repository/.git' '--work-tree=/path/to/repository' pull
>>>
>>> and get this error:
>>> "git-pull cannot be used without a working tree"
>>
>> It works fine for me. What's the result of
>>
>> git '--git-dir=/path/to/repository/.git'
>> '--work-tree=/path/to/repository' --git-dir
>
> No directory given for --git-dir.
>
>> git '--git-dir=/path/to/repository/.git'
>> '--work-tree=/path/to/repository' --is-inside-work-tree
>
> Unknown option: --is-inside-work-tree
>
>> git '--git-dir=/path/to/repository/.git'
>> '--work-tree=/path/to/repository' --show-toplevel
>
> Unknown option: --show-toplevel

Sorry I forgot the command name (rev-parse). The full command should
be "git --git-dir=... --work-tree=... rev-parse <option>" where option
is --git-dir, --is-inside-work-tree, --show-toplevel. Can you please
try again?
-- 
Duy