Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 01:21:42PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> If we want this warning, would something like the following do? >> >> warning: You have set GIT_DIR without setting GIT_WORK_TREE >> hint: In this case, GIT_WORK_TREE defaults to '.' >> hint: To suppress this message, set GIT_WORK_TREE='.' > > That can help by teaching people how GIT_DIR behaves in general. Yes, I think it would have helped in this case. If I understand correctly then for a while Richard was habitually setting GIT_DIR to mean "act on this repository" and thought the worktree was automatically being set to the containing directory. I think patch 3 is a bad direction to go because there will always be old scripts that follow what used to be the recommended way to use GIT_DIR. In the long term a warning like this that doesn't break them (or a fatal error that at least doesn't confuse them) might be a good way to go. Thanks for your thoughtful work, as always. Jonathan -- 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