From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
... 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.
OK, that explains a great deal. IIRC, I first became aware that
From: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com
Philip Oakley wrote:
It was Dale that had the problem, I was just suggesting where he might
want to look... ;-)
A bit more looking gave that the cd_to_toplevel () in git-sh-setup.sh
directly uses `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, which simply
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
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
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
Now, when you say the cwd contains the .git directory, do you mean
cd /repositories
git add ../working/trees/proj-wt1/file
updates file in the /repositories/proj.git/index? Or do you mean
this?
The pattern I use is to have this:
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
It was unclear to me which part of our documentation needs updating
and how, and that was (and still is) what I was primarily interested
in finding out.
It seems to me that what is missing is a description of the
circumstances under which Git can be
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
In general, Git commands on a repository with a detached worktree can
be executed by cd'ing into the directory containing the .git
directory, ...
Eh? News to me; it might happened to have appeared
wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
I must admit I've never seen the design (and I personally doubt that
the design has ever been written down). But at least the following
commands work correctly on a detached worktree if the current
directory contains the .git directory, because I
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
... and the detection process for 'toplevel' may not work
properly when in a separated work-tree environment.
Without GIT_WORK_TREE exported to point at the top-level, there is
nothing that lets us detect it,
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
... and the detection process for 'toplevel' may not work
properly when in a separated work-tree environment.
Without GIT_WORK_TREE exported to point at the
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
... and the detection process for 'toplevel' may not work
properly when in a separated work-tree environment.
Without
From: Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
... and the detection process for 'toplevel' may not work
properly when in a
Philip Oakley wrote:
A bit more looking gave that the cd_to_toplevel () in git-sh-setup.sh
directly uses `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, which simply returns
work_tree (static char *work_tree; in environment.c, with comment /*
This is set by setup_git_dir_gently() and/or git_default_config()
In Git, one can set up a repository with a detached worktree, where
the .git directory is not a subdirectory of the top directory of the
work tree.
In general, Git commands on a repository with a detached worktree can
be executed by cd'ing into the directory containing the .git
directory, and
wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
In general, Git commands on a repository with a detached worktree can
be executed by cd'ing into the directory containing the .git
directory, ...
Eh? News to me; it might happened to have appeared to work by
accident, but that is not by design.
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com
wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
In general, Git commands on a repository with a detached worktree can
be executed by cd'ing into the directory containing the .git
directory, ...
Eh? News to me; it might happened to have appeared to work by
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes:
... and the detection process for 'toplevel' may not work
properly when in a separated work-tree environment.
Without GIT_WORK_TREE exported to point at the top-level, there is
nothing that lets us detect it, as the working tree does not have
.git
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