The script starts in a subdirectory of the source directory to muck with a branch whose structure does not have anything to do with the actual work tree. Go up to the top to make it clear that we operate on the whole tree. It also exported GIT_DIR without any good reason. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- * I am getting the impression that the semantics of the updated work-tree support is as broken as the original, although the code that implements it is easier to read. Admittedly, this is an unorthodox corner case usage, that deals with a tree structure that does not have any relation with the current project state, and the script is started with a subdirectory of the current project. What is needed is a way to tell git that "we may be in a subdirectory but the tree structure we are dealing with does not have anything to do with the current work tree structure -- ignore the fact that we are not at the toplevel", and exporting of GIT_DIR was the way to do so in the old world order. Another way to do this in the new world order would be to pass "--work-tree=.", but this has its own problems it seems. You can try commenting out cd_to_toplevel this patch introduces, then rewrite checkout-index part with: git --git-dir="$GIT_DIR" --work-tree=. checkout-index -a... which seems to work, but if you drop --git-dir="$GIT_DIR" from the above (without reintroducing the export of GIT_DIR), you get "fatal: Could not switch to '.git'" which seems quite bogus. If you say: git --work-tree=. foo without saying anything about GIT_DIR, shouldn't we run the usual .git/ discovery, going up the directories? Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh index e6601bd..07d227f 100755 --- a/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh +++ b/Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ mandir="$2" SUBDIRECTORY_OK=t USAGE='<refname> <target directory>' . git-sh-setup -export GIT_DIR +cd_to_toplevel test -z "$mandir" && usage if ! git rev-parse --verify "$head^0" >/dev/null; then @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ fi GIT_INDEX_FILE=`pwd`/.quick-doc.index export GIT_INDEX_FILE rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE" +trap 'rm -f "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"' 0 + git read-tree $head git checkout-index -a -f --prefix="$mandir"/ -- 1.5.3.rc4.8.ga120 - 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