"Britton Kerin" <bkerin@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 1. GIT_DIR (and --git-dir) should make git behave exactly as if git > was > wired to look for $GIT_DIR rather than '.git'. The occurence of > the > GIT_DIR description in the top-level man page (for 'man git') > seems to > suggest that this is how things work. That's underdescribing things. Presense of GIT_DIR means much more than that (e.g. you are at the top-level of the repository unless you have WORK_TREE). > 4. The noob docs should make some mention of this issue. Which "noob docs" did you look at (and do you think other people would most likely to look at)? I think the most important description they need is not to mess with these environment variables. It might sometimes be needed to move .git away from its default place (and I haven't been in that situation yet, so you have to be more advanced than me ;-)), but if you are doing such a non-default thing, you are certainly no longer "noob". -- 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
