On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > # Tell people we want to work with ".git-1" > export GIT_DIR=.git-1 Actually, I think Jakub's approach is better: you'd be better off doing this as alias git-1="git --git-dir=.git-1" alias git-2="git --git-dir=.git-2" and now you should be able to just do git-1 diff (or any other git command) and git-2 diff and can happily share the same directory and mix git commands without changing an environment variable all the time. That would still be insane, but it wouldn't likely be _quite_ as confusing (or error-prone in case you forgot to switch the variable). Linus PS. I'd still _not_ suggest doing this. It should _work_, but I mean - really.. - 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