Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >So I figure that GIT_DIR is not meant to _rename_ the ".git" dir, >but to point somewhere _outside_ the worktree (or somewhere within >the .git dir). Correct. > If we don't want to support this, though, I think it would be more > approrpiate to issue a warning if GIT_DIR points to a worktree > location. But how do tell what is and isn't a "worktree location"? Having the path in the index would be one, but you may find it out only after issuing "git checkout $antient_commit". -- 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