On 3/12/07, Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Putting $GIT_WORK_DIR as is into $GIT_DIR/workdir is probably not what
the user expects because the content of $GIT_DIR/workdir is
interpreted relative to $GIT_DIR, not the current working directory.
Example:
/tmp$ mkdir repository working_directory
/tmp$ git --git-dir=repository --work-dir=working_directory init
If git init puts 'working_directory' into $GIT_DIR/workdir it would
make the associated working directory $GIT_DIR/working_directory =
/tmp/repository/working_directory and not /tmp/working_directory.
The alternative to use
/tmp$ git --git-dir=repository --work-dir=../working_directory init
seems quite confusing to me.
If you've any other idea to solve this please tell me.
Let users create $GIT_DIR/workdir themselves. Your way may be less
confusing to you but might be more confusing to me because I _might_
expect a relative workdir setting (for example I move the repository
and the working directory together to another place).
--
Duy
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