From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:26:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Git rebase --exec cannot run git commands affecting other repos
Message-ID: <xmqqlg3s2wu8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190110161904.23fwbrgg7blyx3nj@uh-nuc001>

Samir Benmendil <me@rmz.io> writes:

> It is impossible to run git commands affecting a different repo from
> within a `git rebase --exec` because in that environment the `GIT_DIR`
> and `GIT_WORK_TREE` variables are set and inherited by any commands
> run as part of `git rebase --exec`.

If the user wants to work in a different repository, the
environments that tells Git about the original repository can be
unset to do so, which is a very much deliberately designed
behaviour, primarily to help those who run "git rebase" from a
subdirectory of the project.