rev-parse --git-dir outputs a full path - except for the single case of when the path would be $(pwd)/.git, in which case it outputs simply .git. Check for this special case and handle it. Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I tried to use new-workdir yesterday for the first time in a while, and found that it worked provided I gave a path inside the base repo, but not the path of the repo itself. Turns out to be an oddity in rev-parse --git-dir output. Since the rev-parse code explicitly does something different, I assume there is a reason for it. contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir index f2a3615..709b2a3 100755 --- a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir +++ b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ git_dir=$(cd "$orig_git" 2>/dev/null && git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null) || die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!" +if test "$git_dir" == ".git" +then + git_dir="$orig_git/.git" +fi + # don't link to a workdir if test -L "$git_dir/config" then -- 1.5.2.2 - 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