Re: how to access working tree from .git dir?

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On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 14:44 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Josh England <jjengla@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > ... there doesn't seem to be a
> > good way to access the top of the working tree from within the GIT_DIR.
> > Since I now know that post-receive has a CWD in .git, I could just use
> > `pwd`/../ , but I was hoping for a better (read: consistent between
> > hooks) solution.
> 
> I do not think it is a bad thing for _your_ script to have the
> knowledge that in _your_ repositories everywhere, the top of the
> work tree is $GIT_DIR/.. and there is no repository that lacks a
> work tree.  Obviously that would not work for people with bare
> repositories, but they would not be using _your_ script in their
> bare repositories, so that is Ok.

OK. Fair enough.  Maybe it would be good to note in git-sh-setup.sh that
many of the supplied functions will not work when called from within
$GIT_DIR.

-JE


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