Michael Sloan <mgsloan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So what's the problem with this choice of environment variables? > Well, the problem is that if PWD is changed during the execution of > the script, then GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR will no longer work > properly. For example, if the pre-commit hook is > > #!/bin/sh > cd some-dir > git status > > This will fail with > > Not a git repository: '.dotfiles-git' That is to be expected. It's up to the script to make them absolute if it cannot cope with relative paths. > There is another detail here, which is that when --git-dir / > --work-tree is not specified, the no GIT_WORK_TREE / GIT_DIR > environment variable is set. This means that in this case, changing > PWD in the hook will work fine as long as the search for .git will > find the right one. That also is working as designed.
