Mangling the email I respond to out of order.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> but I
> am not sure if that is too restrictive for people who for some
> unknown reason want to use these environment variables to create
> repositories with a strange layout.
This is exactly the point. For vcsh[1] to work, I need to set it up like this:
richih@titanium ~ % vcsh enter zsh
richih@titanium [zsh] [2] (git)-[master] ~ % echo $GIT_WORK_TREE
/home/richih
richih@titanium [zsh] [2] (git)-[master] ~ % echo $GIT_DIR
/home/richih/.config/vcsh/repo.d/zsh.git
richih@titanium [zsh] [2] (git)-[master] ~ %
> Declaring that a checked out submodule _must_ have its controlling
> repository as ".git" at its root level, i.e. it should be accessible
> without using GIT_WORK_TREE/GIT_DIR at all just like a normal Git
> repository is, would be a clean way to avoid the issue altogether
> and it still will allow the top-level superproject to be structured
> in a funny way to require GIT_WORK_TREE/GIT_DIR to access it,
I fear this would make vcsh unable to support submodules, ever.
Richard
[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
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