Hi Peff, John & Junio (who recommended GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES first, On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:14:03AM +0000, John Keeping wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:26:57AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:47:00AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > > I cannot think of a way how to test this: all of the regression > > > > tests run inside Git's own worktree, and we cannot even assume > > > > that /tmp/ is outside of a worktree (or that it exists). > > > > > > We could make the test conditional on whether we are in a repo. Anybody > > > who builds from a tarball, or who uses --root would then run the test. > > > > Could we use GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES for this? Absolutely. I created a test and essentially duplicated Peff's finding: this is a Windows-only issue. Will keep you posted, Dscho -- 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