From: Shawn Ferris <shawn.ferris@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:44:03 GMT
Subject: Re: .git ignored regardless of --git-dir value
Message-ID: <CAC2kKA-E4KstQCGV=gMJHFdUdzM0boc7SmZNzvSh9_OQWvHcdQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7h2xjbf4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>>
>> GIT_DIR and --git-dir are meant to refer to a different .git dir (or a
>> bare-looking repository) located elsewhere, and not for a random pathname
>> like ".foo". No matter what, ".git/" anywhere is ignored from very early

I'm extremely green to git, so please forgive if this is obvious, but,
could I indulge and ask what a sample use case of that would be?
(since it's not intended for what I assumed it was) And, if the
behavior I expected was possible, simply, with perhaps a separate
option, what is the likelihood a patch would be accepted? (Or am I
just talking nonsense and should just go away) ;D

Thanks Again!

Shawn