From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:01:55 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout detached work tree
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0803200801y45255591t5c0e9505399cbb30@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <slrnfu0k9d.kfv.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  is it correct that this checkout fails?
>
>  % git --git-dir=$HOME/git/git/.git --work-tree=/tmp/git symbolic-ref HEAD
>  refs/heads/master
>  % git --git-dir=$HOME/git/git/.git --work-tree=/tmp/git checkout
>  fatal: /usr/bin/git-checkout cannot be used without a working tree.
>
>  I want to do a checkout in a script without need to worry about the
>  current working directory. But it seams this is not possible. Many
>  commands fail. Is this behaviour expected?

Works well here with version 1.5.4.2.281.g28d0e. What version were you using?
-- 
Duy