From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:45:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [Bug] Custom git-dir directory shouldn't be listed as “untracked”
Message-ID: <xmqqeg4fg4w6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACmQg1hE=ytaatDfUJLkhL0p5c43wZZvgt+8pc5zoo0YFdQw6A@mail.gmail.com>

Nicolas Cuillery <nicolas.cuillery@gmail.com> writes:

> When using the default directory ".git", it logically doesn't appear
> in the "git status" command's output. Don't you think it should be the
> same when using a custom dir name ?

Not really.

GIT_DIR=<there> mechanism was never meant to be used to name a
directory that sitsinside your working tree (an exception is if it
is actually ".git" at the top).