From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:38:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug in 1.6.6 with reset --hard and $GIT_WORK_TREE
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0912290038u77a5e83cqe2f3cbfab05af263@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1a04eebf0912282247p6975a96el8076cb39378bd104@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/29/09, 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?

A recent patch by Jeff (952dfc6 (reset: improve worktree safety valves
- 2009-12-04)) makes sure that "git reset --hard" will not work
outside worktree (which is right). Where was your current directory,
inside $GIT_WORK_TREE or outside?
-- 
Duy