From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:12:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug in 1.6.6 with reset --hard and $GIT_WORK_TREE
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0912290012m3d64669fw4315960274baecb9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1a04eebf0912282247p6975a96el8076cb39378bd104@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Fyn Fynn <fynfynn@gmail.com> wrote:
> The exact same git reset command that works in 1.6.4, fails to work
> under 1.6.6:
>
> $ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/rawdata/ GIT_DIR=$HOME/rawdata/.git
> /usr/local/git-1.6.6/bin/git reset --hard
> fatal: hard reset requires a work tree
> $ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/rawdata/ GIT_DIR=$HOME/rawdata/.git
> /usr/local/git-1.6.4/bin/git reset --hard
> HEAD is now at 77ec73f...
>
> What gives?

perhaps you should also specify the --exec-path option or
GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable.

Assuming a full installation in /usr/local/git-1.6.6/ and thus that
the git commands are installed at
/usr/local/git-1.6.6/libexec/git-core/, the reset for 1.6.6 would look
like this:

$ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/rawdata/ \
GIT_DIR=$HOME/rawdata/.git \
GIT_EXEC_PATH=/usr/local/git-1.6.6/libexec/git-core/ \
/usr/local/git-1.6.6/bin/git reset --hard

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan