Hello guys, I don't know if this is a normal behavior, so I'll just explain it here.
* Behavior: from a directory OUTSIDE my git repo, I can run this command successfully: $ git --git-dir=/my/repo/path/.git --work-tree=/my/repo/path pull origin master But this one: $ git --git-dir=/my/repo/path/.git --work-tree=/my/repo/path stash Will fails with : 'fatal: $program_name cannot be used without a working tree.' (Yes, the error message has been corrected since, but I use debian, so I'm at least 6 month late). * A bit of investigation: I don't know many about git internal functioning, but with a bit of googleing, I would point out git-sh-setup.sh:204, in function require_work_tree, called by git-stash. I could test (from outside my git repo, again): git --git-dir=/my/repo/path/.git --work-tree=/my/repo/path rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree return: false What surprise me is that 'git-dir' seems to be passed ok to rev-parse: git --git-dir=/my/repo/path/.git --work-tree=/my/repo/path rev-parse --git-dir returns: /my/repo/path/.git * Question Is this a normal behavior? Stash can only be applied in current working directory? If yes, I'll have to change my script to (cd && git command) If not, should I push a bug report somewhere? Marc
