sorry if I created too much (user) noise around this issue, but this is mostly why as a user I refrained using git-1.5.x I sometimes have a scm work flow where I'd like to have my GIT_DIR sitting on another file system, so therefore not in the current working directory. I used to be able to do this in git-1.4.4.4: (it's a rather useless example, I know) mkdir /home/xian/vault export GIT_DIR=/home/xian/vault mkdir /tmp/xianwork cd /tmp/xianwork touch a b git init-db git add . This was truly working, and now using git-1.5.1.4, it's not. Instead I get: "fatal: add must be run in a work tree" from the source code, I understand what to change if I want to get the old behavior. My questions are: - is this new behavior truly needed ? - is there another way to do this using newer work flow ? ( I know already about the symbolic .git link trick ) Thanks in advance for any useful tips. -- Christian - 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
