Hi, On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > Johannes Schindelin, 30.03.2009: > > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > > > > > Starting git-gui via Windows Explorer shell extension caused > > > problems when not started from the project directory, but from a > > > directory within the project: starting the Explorer from the git-gui > > > menu "Explore Working Copy" didn't work then. > > > > > > Starting git-gui via Explorer shell extension from the .git > > > directory didn't work at all. > > > > > > To make these things possible, "cd .." until we see .git/ > > > > How does this interact with GIT_WORK_TREE? > > Not sure. What's the use case for a globally set GIT_WORK_TREE, how is > it used? You can call git gui with a non-global GIT_WORK_TREE by something like this, even on Windows (which your patch does not special case, anyway): $ GIT_WORK_TREE=/bla/blub git gui > > And with bare repositories? > > Git-gui doesn't seem to work with bare repositories, I get > "Cannot use funny .git directory: ." > when started on the command line. Oh? I thought there was some discussion recently that was explicitely about git gui with bare repositories. But I have to time-share my brain these days, so my memory might well show some bit flips. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
