From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:53:29 GMT Subject: Re: GIT_DIR vs. --git-dir Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <50601274.80506@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > It might be difficult to implement, but I'm sorry I can't follow the > argumentation above at all; it's not based on what we do in other places > and other cases. My point is, what's so special about --git-dir? what about --work-tree, or "commit -F path"? It's hard to draw a line there. Config files are a special case, because git is the only one that reads the file. "~" expansion depends on shell setting. If users turn it off, they may be surprised that "~foo" is turned to /home/foo while they really mean "~foo". Warning is the only sensible thing we could do. -- Duy