On 2019-11-27 5:33 a.m., Junio C Hamano wrote:
An intentional design decision (and it may be an unfortunate one by now [*1*]) was to have the GIT_DIR (hence --git-dir) talk about the *source side* of the clone, not the destination, e.g.
Ah ha, the following does what I want, regardless of `GIT_DIR`/`GIT_WORK_TREE`:
git init repository GIT_DIR=bogus GIT_WORK_TREE=bogus git --work-tree directory clone repository directory/.git
Thank you!