Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> In my scripts I'm setting GIT_DIR to use git-fetch and git-reset without changing the >> current working directory all the time. > > Yeah, for historical reasons GIT_WORK_TREE defaults to $(pwd) when > GIT_DIR is explicitly set. And it *WILL* be that way til the end of time. Unless you are at the top level of your working tree, you are supposed to tell where the top level is with GIT_WORK_TREE when you use GIT_DIR. Always. And that is the answer you should be giving here, not implicit stuff, which is an implementation detail to help aliases. I do not know how things will break when the end user sets and exports it to the environment, and I do not think we would want to make any promise on how it works. -- 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