Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > It is allowed to call > > $ git --git-dir=../ --work-tree=. bla > > when you really want to. In this case, you are both in the git directory > and in the working tree. > > The earlier handling of this situation was seriously bogus. For regular > working tree operations, it checked if inside git dir. That makes no > sense, of course, since the check should be for a work tree, and nothing > else. > > Fix that. I do not doubt this patch makes the above command line to work better, but I have to wonder how that layout is useful. Care to give a use case or two in the commit log message? - 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