On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 04:44, bill lam <cbill.lam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I track /etc using a config > > [core] > repositoryformatversion = 0 > filemode = true > bare = false > worktree = /etc > logAllRefUpdates = true > excludesfile = > > But that can not be handled by tools, > > tig : status view said, The status view requires a working tree Yes, on startup, tig checks git-rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree and disables things like the status view if it is false. I don't know how much work it would be to start using core.worktree. It might be as simple as setting the GIT_DIR environment to getcwd() + output of git-rev-parse --git-dir and then chdir() to core.worktree. -- Jonas Fonseca -- 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