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checkout detached work tree

Subject: checkout detached work tree

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2 messages between Mar 18, 2008 and Mar 20, 2008.

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Jörg Sommer· Mar 18, 2008, 23:32 UTC · lore

Hi,

is it correct that this checkout fails?

% git --git-dir=$HOME/git/git/.git --work-tree=/tmp/git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master % git --git-dir=$HOME/git/git/.git --work-tree=/tmp/git checkout fatal: /usr/bin/git-checkout cannot be used without a working tree.

I want to do a checkout in a script without need to worry about the current working directory. But it seams this is not possible. Many commands fail. Is this behaviour expected?

Bye, Jörg.

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy· Mar 20, 2008, 15:01 UTC · re: Jörg Sommer · lore

Re: checkout detached work tree

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>  is it correct that this checkout fails?
>
>  % git --git-dir=$HOME/git/git/.git --work-tree=/tmp/git symbolic-ref HEAD
>  refs/heads/master
>  % git --git-dir=$HOME/git/git/.git --work-tree=/tmp/git checkout
>  fatal: /usr/bin/git-checkout cannot be used without a working tree.
>
>  I want to do a checkout in a script without need to worry about the
>  current working directory. But it seams this is not possible. Many
>  commands fail. Is this behaviour expected?

Works well here with version 1.5.4.2.281.g28d0e. What version were you using?

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