Ville Walveranta <walveranta <at> gmail.com> writes: > > "git-rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir" outputs "fatal: Not a git > repository (or any of the parent directories): .git", instead of > "false" when outside of a git directory. "--is-inside-work-tree" > behaves the same way. Both commands work correctly (i.e. output > "true") when inside a git directory, or inside a work tree, > respectively. > > To test, I installed git 1.8.4.2 initially from > https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa for Ubuntu 12.04.3, and > then also compiled it from source, but both seem to behave the same > way. The problem is not yet present in version 1.7.9.5. > > Thanks, > > Ville Walveranta > Hi, I thought I'd try to bisect this but I ended up discovering that I get the exact same behaviour with both 1.7.9.5 and 1.8.4.2. 1.7.9.5 will also output 'fatal: ...' like 1.8.4.2 does. Both version will however behave as expected if you provide --git-dir and --work-tree: $ pwd /home/osse $ git --version git version 1.8.4.2 $ git --git-dir=/home/osse/git/.git \ --work-tree=/home/osse/git \ rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree false Ditto for --is-inside-git-dir. Incidentally I discovered that the new -C option does *not* behave this way: $ git --version git version 1.8.5.rc0.23.gaa27064 $ git -C /home/osse/git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree true But given that the purpose of the -C option is to make Git behave as if you were in that directory this is perhaps expected behaviour. Regards, Øsse -- 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