On 5/22/2015 7:22 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:03:48PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> As far as I know, GIT_DIR was prepared as a mechanism to point at >> another .git directory that does not live inside the working tree, not >> as a mechanism to rename it to arbitrary name. E.g. >> >> $ git init >> $ mv .git .svn >> $ GIT_DIR=$(pwd)/.svn ; export GIT_DIR >> >> is not expected to work. > > ++ > +Note that if GIT_DIR is set explicitly to a directory inside working > +tree, the directory name must be ".git". This is not at all what I was hoping to hear, but thanks for the response. Thorsten
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