From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:44:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Working patterns
Message-ID: <xmqqa9hzpsr0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <201310232023.r9NKNr5v012288@freeze.ariadne.com>

worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:

> It seems to me that the two sets of Git commands should be invokable
> under the same circumstances, that there is a design specification as
> to how Git can be invoked, and both implementations should match that.

As far as I know, the design for any (be it script or command) is
that they should be able to run from the top-level and from any
subdirectory within, but running from outside the top-level of the
working tree has never been part of the design goal.  If some
commands tolerated it, that was by mere accident and not by design.