As far as I know, GIT_DIR was prepared as a mechanism to point at another .git directory that does not live inside the working tree, not as a mechanism to rename it to arbitrary name. E.g. $ git init $ mv .git .svn $ GIT_DIR=$(pwd)/.svn ; export GIT_DIR is not expected to work. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Thorsten von Eicken <tve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I renamed my .git directory to _git and I'm surprised that git status thinks > that it's an untracked file: > > $ GIT_DIR=_git git status > On branch master > Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. > > Untracked files: > (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) > > _git/ > > nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) > > This doesn't seem to make sense, shouldn't git ignore whatever $GIT_DIR > points to? Or is there some other magic option I need to use for it to do > what I expect? > -- > 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 -- 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