Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > I think both of you are wrong ;-) > > The thing is, what you are seeing does not have much to do with > GIT_DIR. It is "what Git does when it finds a directory inside the > working tree of a project". And ".git" is the only special thing in > that context.
In short, I think Duy's "how about this" means well, but adds documentation at a wrong place. Having said all that, the message I am responding to showed the right way to look at, understand, and explain the current behaviour. It is a separate issue if the current behaviour is optimal from the usability point of view. It is not entirely implausible to extend the special casing rules from "a directory named '.git' only" to "in addition, the directory pointed at by GIT_DIR, if exists, is treated the same way". -- 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
