On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Pimlott <[email protected]> writes: > >> folio:text chris$ git --git-dir=../.git describe --always --dirty >> c0edd63-dirty > > I have a feeling that this is not limited to describe at all. With > the --git-dir option, you are telling Git that your GIT_DIR is over > there and (by not using --work-tree together with that option) you > are telling Git that you do not want Git to guess where the working > tree is (instead, you are telling Git that you are at the top of the > working tree), no?
Ah, my apologies, you are correct. I was not aware of --work-tree and didn't realize that specifying --git-dir would turn off the normal working tree discovery process. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
