Re: git's is_inside_git_dir too strict?

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >Well, there is a real problem with "This operation must be run in a work
> >tree". What operation is that? We tried to make it hard to overwrite
> >things in $GIT_DIR by running Git operations meant for the working tree,
> >and it seems like you are running one of them.
> 
> From this command:
> 
> git --git-dir=/home/pclouds/blog/data.git ls-files --others --modified
> 2007-03-07T18_52_41.txt
> 
> It was run in /home/pclouds/blog/data, which is the working directory
> of data.git.

Why not just symlink it?

	cd /home/pclouds/blog/data
	ln -s ../data.git .git

But really, why is your Git repository for the working directory
outside of the working directory?  Why not just move data.git to
data/.git ?

-- 
Shawn.
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