I set up a system to keep track of my dotfiles in my home directory as follows:
$ mkdir dotfiles.git $ cd dotfiles.git $ git init --bare >From here I edited dotfiles.git/config to read [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false ignorecase = true worktree = /Users/nick I also made a lengthy info/exclude file. This works in that I was able to add files from my home directory and push them to github. Here is the problem I'm having with ls-files: $ git ls-files $ git --work-tree=~ ls-files .bash_profile .bashrc .gemrc .profile .rvmrc .screenrc $ git --work-tree=/Users/nick ls-files $ git --work-tree=.. ls-files I'm not sure why ~ works, but the absolute and relative paths do not. Changing the config file to read worktree = ~ results in $ git ls-files fatal: Could not chdir to '~/': No such file or directory I'm using the latest MacPorts version of git under OS X Lion, if that matters at all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/EpvW6NvqHSEJ. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
