Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> $ mkdir .git/tmp >> $ cd .git/tmp >> $ git rebase >> fatal: fatal: /home/peff/local/git/private/libexec/git-core/git-rebase >> cannot be used without a working tree. >> >> So that case is already broken. The only change this would make is that >> what used to fail would not actually take them to the top-level of the >> working tree[1]. > > Ugh. It does work if you do: > > mkdir .git/tmp > cd .git/tmp > GIT_DIR=$PWD/.. git rebase Actually, this one is OK. Presense of GIT_DIR combined with the lack of GIT_WORK_TREE means that .git/tmp must be the top of the working tree, so it is the script's responsibility to populate the directory with what matches to $GIT_DIR/index between "mkdir" and "rebase" in the above sequence. So I suspect we won't have to worry about this case either. -- 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