I try to take a closer look at your changes tomorrow evening. Here are just two short things I saw while taking a short look at the patch. Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > +const char *get_git_work_tree(void) > +{ > + static int initialized = 0; > + if (!initialized) { > + work_tree = getenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT); > + if (!work_tree) { > + work_tree = git_work_tree_cfg; > + if (work_tree && !is_absolute_path(work_tree)) > + work_tree = git_path(work_tree); A tab is missing here. > - fprintf(stderr, "No directory given for --work-tree.\n" ); > + error("No directory given for --work-tree.\n"); There should probably be no '\n' at the end when the 'error' function is used. There are two other calls to fprintf(stderr, <error message>) next to the one you changed, why did you change this one but not the other ones? - 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