On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> GIT_DIR and --git-dir are meant to refer to a different .git dir (or a >> bare-looking repository) located elsewhere, and not for a random pathname >> like ".foo". No matter what, ".git/" anywhere is ignored from very early I'm extremely green to git, so please forgive if this is obvious, but, could I indulge and ask what a sample use case of that would be? (since it's not intended for what I assumed it was) And, if the behavior I expected was possible, simply, with perhaps a separate option, what is the likelihood a patch would be accepted? (Or am I just talking nonsense and should just go away) ;D Thanks Again! Shawn -- 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