From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:55:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [Bug] git pull doesn't recognize --work-tree parameter
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AgW8fg3iOKQw=vv2s20hF0PTGD9Py-eMOTBmAv+6CYWg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E95C75ED-99F2-463C-A1AB-0F8152696739@jetbrains.com>

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Kirill Likhodedov
<kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com> wrote:
>
> 'git pull' doesn't work from outside the working tree even if '--work-tree' is specified:
>
> # git version
> git version 1.7.6
> # git --git-dir=/Users/loki/sandbox/git/child/.git --work-tree=/Users/loki/sandbox/git/child pull
> fatal: /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree.
>
> Note that  'git fetch' and 'git merge origin/master' work fine, so 'git pull' should be easy to fix :)

Not exactly. git-pull is a shell script and may have problems that a
builtin command like git-fetch never has. An "easy" way is to just
build git-pull in. I have such a (stalled) WIP since May. Thanks for
reminding me to finish my work :)
-- 
Duy