On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 09:22:56AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: >> --- 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)
If $GIT_DIR points to somewhere inside worktree, ".git" exactly (it's strcmp(), not ends_with()) is the only exception. If it points outside worktree, the directory name could be anything. -- Duy -- 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
