Re: Shouldn't git-ls-files --others use $GIT_DIR?

From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Nov 20, 2006, 19:51 UTC
Message-ID: <dbfc82860611201151m52933720lfef939b7f6803411@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061119183756.GZ7201@pasky.or.cz>

On 11/19/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:37:42PM CET, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > If I do
> >
> > GIT_DIR=$HOME/projects/<project>/.git git ls-files --others
> >
> > from, e.g., $HOME, I get a list of all the files in $HOME and its
> > subdirectories that aren't in said git repository.  Shouldn't --others
> > use $GIT_DIR, instead of ".", or am I missing something here?
>
> git-ls-files --others lists untracked files in the current directory by
> comparing it to the index stored in $GIT_DIR/index and listing files
> present in the current directory but not in the index.

Ah, of course; how silly of me.  Thanks.