From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:33:47 GMT
Subject: GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable not working
Message-ID: <ron1-8E7697.17334731012010@news.gmane.org>

What am I doing wrong here?

[ron@mickey:~/devel/gittest]$ pwd
/Users/ron/devel/gittest
[ron@mickey:~/devel/gittest]$ git status
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#  git/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to 
track)
[ron@mickey:~/devel/gittest]$ cd
[ron@mickey:~]$ export GIT_WORK_TREE=/Users/ron/devel/gittest
[ron@mickey:~]$ git status
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
[ron@mickey:~]$ git status --work-tree=/Users/ron/devel/gittest
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
[ron@mickey:~]$