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Re: [PATCH] path_treatment: also ignore $GIT_DIR if it's not .git

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2013, 18:32 UTC
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Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> writes:
>So I figure that GIT_DIR is not meant to _rename_ the ".git" dir,
>but to point somewhere _outside_ the worktree (or somewhere within
>the .git dir).
Correct.
> If we don't want to support this, though, I think it would be more
> approrpiate to issue a warning if GIT_DIR points to a worktree
> location.

But how do tell what is and isn't a "worktree location"? Having the path in the index would be one, but you may find it out only after issuing "git checkout $antient_commit".

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