On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 09:22:56AM +0700, 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. > > This is not the first time we get this report. Perhaps we should > document it. > > -- 8< -- > Subject: git.txt: mention the special name ".git" in GIT_DIR > > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt > index 90c5f37..91d6dd2 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git.txt > @@ -691,6 +691,9 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc. > specifies a path to use instead of the default `.git` > for the base of the repository. > The '--git-dir' command-line option also sets this value. > ++ > +Note that if GIT_DIR is set explicitly to a directory inside working > +tree, the directory name must be ".git".
Isn't the requirement that it _ends_ with ".git" (that is, GIT_DIR=/path/to/foo.git would work) Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
