On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 7:33 AM Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote: > I researched this also and concluded that it's a bug in git-commit. > You run afoul of it in other situations, as well. For instance, say > you have your index file in a non-standard location: > > $ export GIT_INDEX_FILE=../storage/index > $ git worktree add --detach other > Preparing worktree (detached HEAD c9156d2) > fatal: Unable to create '/.../foo/other/../storage/index.lock': No > such file or directory > $ > > I think the correct fix is for git-commit to assign GIT_INDEX_FILE > with the absolute path to the index file, not a relative path.
Thinking more clearly on it, a better fix might be for git-worktree to deal with this itself, converting such a path to absolute before cd'ing to the new worktree directory (or something -- I don't have the code in front of me to provide a more concrete suggestion).
