Hello Junio,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:12:53 +0100
>
> The old behaviour was to unilaterally default to the cwd is the work tree
> when GIT_DIR was set, but GIT_WORK_TREE wasn't, no matter if we are inside
> the GIT_DIR, or if GIT_DIR is actually something like ../../../.git.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I think I sent a patch for that, but was negative about it, even if I
> > promised not to question your decision.
>
> Yes you did. Here is a refresher with an affected test
> adjusted.
>
> We already have a few changes that worked around the semantics
> change by either setting GIT_WORK_TREE or cd'ing up, but I
> think they should not need to be reverted.
>
> It makes more sense to keep the old semantics -- people who use
> unusual GIT_DIR setting should know what they are doing, and
> the new GIT_WORK_TREE feature (and core.worktree) would give
> them better control. We just should not break existing users
> that set GIT_DIR and nothing else. Which means I need another
> rewrite on the Release Notes, and probably yet another rc
> cycle.
I don't know if you planed to make
git checkout-index --prefix=/tmp/tra -a
work (again) in a bare repo. Probably not, so it's no surprise that it
still doesn't work.
Best regards
Uwe
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