I want to track a tree where I should not store a ".git" dir. (You may
as well assume I don't have direct write access.) So, the ".git" dir is
somewhere else in the filesystem, actually named something like "repo.git".
I know how to make most of git happy with that structure (even diff).
Notable exceptions are gitk and git-gui:
gitk::
It requires GIT_DIR to be set and is happy. Only downside is that gitk
does not fit inside the git-command scheme. Therefore, any aliasing I do
for git commands does not apply to gitk. Having gitk as git-view or such
would help.
git-gui::
For non-bare repos it expects git-dirs of the form "path/.git" and bails
out otherwise. Even when I rename my git dir to such a path things do
not work: all tracked files are reported missing. This happens even when
I call git-gui from the actual work tree, i.e. when git diff would work!
It seems as if git-gui is CDing to "path" when git-dir is "path/.git",
no matter what $PWD, core.worktree or GIT_WORK_TREE say. I don't see why
this should be desired behaviour.
Michael
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