wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:

>> From: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
>
>>      Side note: without GIT_WORK_TREE environment (or
>>      core.worktree), there is no way to tell where the top level
>>      is, so you were limited to always be at the top level of
>>      your working tree if you used GIT_DIR to refer to a
>>      repository that is not embedded in your working tree.  There
>>      were some changes in this area, but I do not recall the
>>      details offhand.
>
> That's not true.  The core.worktree config variable tells the top of
> the worktree, so once you've located the repository, you know where
> the worktree is.

Read the second line again, perhaps?

> ... it's not clear why GIT_WORK_TREE exists, ...

The configuration item came _way_ later than the environment, and we
need to keep users and scripts from old world working, that is why.




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