Re: [PATCH 5/8] work-trees are allowed inside a git-dir

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> > It is allowed to call
> >> >
> >> > 	$ git --git-dir=../ --work-tree=. bla
> >> >
> >> > when you really want to.  In this case, you are both in the git directory
> >> > and in the working tree.
> > ...
> > There are files in that directory (and all of its subdirectories) of a 
> > certain type, which are the only ones which are human generated, and 
> > therefore precious.  I like to add them, and inspect them, with
> >
> > 	git --git-dir=$HOME/x.git add
> >
> > and
> >
> > 	git --git-dir=$HOME/x.git diff
> 
> I understand the --git-dir=$HOME/x.git to keep track of
> something in $HOME/foo/bar example.
> 
> But that is not the issue you described in the original message.
> I was asking about this (which is the way I read your original
> message):
> 
>     $ GIT_DIR=$HOME/x.git git init
>     $ mkdir $HOME/x.git/workroot
>     $ cd $HOME/x.git/workroot
>     $ git --git-dir=../ --work-tree=. 
> 
> That is, $HOME/x.git/ is the GIT_DIR that has HEAD, index and
> refs/, and you are keeping track of contents whose rootlevel is
> at $HOME/x.git/workroot