Yaroslav Nikitenko wrote: > I use git to manage my dotfiles with this command: > > git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ --work-tree=/home/yaroslav I do precisely the same thing. > When reading documentation, I noticed two issues. > > 1) The command doesn't work without --work-tree (even from the top > level directory, which is my home directory). > > [~]$ git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ status > fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree That's weird. It works fine here (although I don't see why I would want that). If you remove all your configuration does it still fail? > 2) In the man documentation for git > git-dir it's written > "It can be an absolute path or relative path to current working directory." > I think this can be confused with work-tree. I suggest removing the > word 'working' (and probably add an article 'the' before the > 'current', but I'm not a native speaker). Yes, the article is missing, as for the rest I have no opinion. > I don't subscribe to the mailing list but hope that I'll receive the replies. Don't worry. The git mailing list doesn't munge the Reply-To header, so any decent MUA will keep you in Cc. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
