Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I actually considered that, too, when writing the patch. But that would > be inconsistent with all of the other commands that use SETUP_WORK_TREE. > For example: > > $ git init && cd .git && git clean > fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree > > So I think we are better to be consistent with the other commands. If > somebody wants to make a separate patch to discover the work tree while > in the $GIT_DIR and chdir to it, that should then be applied to all > commands. I'm not opposed to it, but I also don't see it as a > particularly pressing need. Yes, we would of course want to do this consistently. I haven't followed the codepath yet, but I suspect this will end up being connected with running "rev-parse --show-cdup" inside .git/ of a non-bare repository. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html