From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:22:26 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT_DIR in aliases [Re: Spurious GIT_DIR set when in a worktree [was Re: Nested submodule status bug]
Message-ID: <xmqq4kvaea2l.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200228190218.GC1408759@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yes, the recommended thing is to make sure GIT_DIR is unset if you're
> going to chdir around and expect auto-discovery of the repository to
> work.
>
> Note there are other variables you might want to unset, too, if you're
> switching repositories. Doing:
>
>   unset $(git rev-parse --local-env-vars)
>
> would cover the full list.

Thanks for mentioning --local-env-vars; I was going to ask you to
mention GIT_WORK_TREE anytime you mention unsetting GIT_DIR, but you
did it much better ;-).