On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Allen Li <vianchielfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > $ git --version > git version 2.14.1.581 > > This does not work: > > $ git --git-dir ~/foo/.git --work-tree ~/foo stash create > fatal: /usr/lib/git-core/git-stash cannot be used without a working tree. > > This does: > > $ git --git-dir ~/foo/.git --work-tree ~/foo -C ~/foo stash create > > I found a description of the bug here: > > https://stackoverflow.com/a/5863555
I think that this bug may be quite serious. If you were to run: $ git --git-dir ~/tmp/.git stash This will actually stash using your current directory as the worktree, which could potentially screw up things quite seriously. In my case, I had an unstaged file at ~/tmp/tmp, so Git decided to remove the entire ~/tmp directory as my current directory was ~ and I have a git repo in ~ for my dotfiles.
