Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:08:29AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> So it is a misconfiguration if you only set GIT_WORK_TREE without
>> setting GIT_DIR.
>
> Hmm. I have frequently done this when my cwd is a git repository (e.g.,
> a bare one), and it works as you'd expect (find the git-dir in the
> current path, then the working tree via $GIT_WORK_TREE).
Hmm, does what is done by "git add HEAD" in such a situation match
what you'd expect?
git init work
cd work; date >HEAD; git commit -m initial
git push ../bare master:master
date >>HEAD
export GIT_WORK_TREE=$(pwd)
cd ..
git --bare init bare
cd bare
git add HEAD
I'd have to say that this invites unnecessary confusion, even though
I agree that "go to the GIT_WORK_TREE and take pathspecs relative to
that directory" is the only sensible thing for us to be doing.
But that is not an issue about "set only work-tree" (it is about
"run from outside the work-tree").
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