Re: [PATCH] clone: create intermediate directories of destination repo

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:20:07AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> > > I am worried that it is too clever. I didn't see an obvious way for
> > > work_tree and git_dir to not have that property, but I think it is still
> > > worth somebody double-checking.
> > 
> > I think you can specify git_dir and work_tree on the command line, and set 
> > them to whatever you want, although I now don't remember whether they're 
> > actually both followed for clone (I tried to match the shell version, 
> > whose behavior didn't make too much sense to me).
> 
> The git_dir variable is always set from the directory provided on the
> command line. However, the work_tree can be overridden by the
> environment. For some reason I missed the giant 'work_tree =
> getenv("GIT_WORK_TREE")' when I looked before. But that means that they
> are not necessarily related.
> 
> So my original patch was too clever. Here is the less clever patch, with
> an extra test that would break with the clever version.