Hi Peff, John & Junio (who recommended GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES first,

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:14:03AM +0000, John Keeping wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:26:57AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:47:00AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > >         I cannot think of a way how to test this: all of the regression
> > > >         tests run inside Git's own worktree, and we cannot even assume
> > > >         that /tmp/ is outside of a worktree (or that it exists).
> > > 
> > > We could make the test conditional on whether we are in a repo. Anybody
> > > who builds from a tarball, or who uses --root would then run the test.
> > 
> > Could we use GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES for this?

Absolutely. I created a test and essentially duplicated Peff's finding:
this is a Windows-only issue.

Will keep you posted,
Dscho
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