Re: git status doesn't ignore GIT_DIR directory?

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: May 23, 2015, 11:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C2LHVrZ-MPupz2_BbE-5m7_fA7qK5HdUa9GR30y8YNPw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150523053900.GA2364@glandium.org>

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 09:22:56AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> --- a/Documentation/git.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git.txt
>> @@ -691,6 +691,9 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc.
>>       specifies a path to use instead of the default `.git`
>>       for the base of the repository.
>>       The '--git-dir' command-line option also sets this value.
>> ++
>> +Note that if GIT_DIR is set explicitly to a directory inside working
>> +tree, the directory name must be ".git".
>
> Isn't the requirement that it _ends_ with ".git" (that is,
> GIT_DIR=/path/to/foo.git would work)

If $GIT_DIR points to somewhere inside worktree, ".git" exactly (it's strcmp(), not ends_with()) is the only exception. If it points outside worktree, the directory name could be anything.

-- 
Duy