On 11-01-19 13:42, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Unfortunately the existence of GIT_WORK_TREE makes it tempting to > use without setting GIT_DIR. Maybe I'm asking nonsense, but why should I always use both? On the command line, I either cd to my (alternate) working tree and use GIT_DIR only or the other way round. I used both several times when I wanted to compare the (normal) working tree with another commit using something better than git-diff (git-difftool didn't work for me on cygwin). -- 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