On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 06:18:59AM +0100, Sebastian Staudt wrote: > This ensures that nothing breaks the basic functionality of describe for > bare repositories. Please note that --broken and --dirty need a working > tree. Makes sense. > +test_expect_success 'describe works from outside repo using --git-dir' " > + git clone --bare '$TRASH_DIRECTORY' '$TRASH_DIRECTORY/bare' && > + git --git-dir '$TRASH_DIRECTORY/bare' describe > +" What the test is doing seems sane, but the same quoting comments from the earlier patch apply. -Peff