On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > No it isn't. The above doesn't even work for bare repositories, or when > you want to look at a branch that has a different directory structure than > the currently-checked-out one. .. and I don't mean that as a theoretical thing. I don't personally use bare directories directly very much (I push to them, but I seldom do any other remote management than just repacking once in a while), but it _is_ a meaningful operation for various services like gitweb or gitk etc. Obviously gitweb doesn't support that --relative thing right now, and maybe it never makes sense in that context, but it's actually really pleasant how many things *do* just "automatically work" with bare repositories etc. So I simply don't think that we should assume a working directory for any basic git operation, unless that operation fundamentally needs one because it's only defined for a system with working directories (which is fairly rare, but obviously happens: "git reset --hard", "git pull/merge", "git checkout" etc). Linus - 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
