On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Cedric Gava wrote: > I’ve copied a .git folder located at the root (/) of a filesystem, > into another directory (/home/mydir). If I issue a git rev-parse > —show-toplevel I got "/"... > I would like to change the top-level to point to /home/mydir. Try running "git config --unset core.worktree" in the .git dir. It looks like "git init" will write a core.worktree entry in this case, even though it isn't technically needed. I think it is due to these lines in builtin/init-db.c: if (!starts_with(git_dir, work_tree) || strcmp(git_dir + strlen(work_tree), "/.git")) { git_config_set("core.worktree", work_tree); } The check returns a false positive for the root directory because we only have one slash (i.e., appending "/.git" to our worktree would be "//.git" in this case). -Peff -- 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