Joey Hess writes:
>> I am not sure if relative to PWD is useful. If it were relative to
>> either the GIT_DIR or the GIT_WORK_TREE, i.e. a fixed point, then
>> you can set and export GIT_INDEX_FILE and chdir around without
>> having to adjust it. If it were relative to PWD, you would need to
>>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I personally think that it would be OK as long as we do not change
> behaviours for those who do not use core.worktree, $GIT_DIR and/or
> $GIT_WORK_TREE and change behaviour for others to match that
> behaviour, simply because the plain vanilla no-configuration would
> be us
Joey Hess writes:
> I feel it should be made consistently relative to top of work tree.
>
> Seems fairly unlikely that any scripts driving git rely on it
> being relative to the pwd when GIT_WORK_TREE etc is set.
Oh, I do agree that the current status may be a sign that nobody
that is cautious t
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joey Hess writes:
>
> > This seems to make it basically impossible for any program that wants to
> > use GIT_INDEX_FILE to use anything other than an absolute path;
> > there are too many configurations to keep straight that could change how
> > git interprets what should
Joey Hess writes:
> This seems to make it basically impossible for any program that wants to
> use GIT_INDEX_FILE to use anything other than an absolute path;
> there are too many configurations to keep straight that could change how
> git interprets what should be a simple relative path to a fil
This is actually worse than I thought; when git is being run with a
detached work tree, GIT_INDEX_FILE is treated as a path relative to CWD,
instead of the normal behavior of relative the top of the work tree.
Normal and expected (according to this thread anyway):
joey@darkstar:~/src/other/git/Do
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joey Hess writes:
>
> > Appears to be a bug in git. Seems that it's assuming GIT_INDEX_FILE is
> > relative to the top of the worktree and not to the CWD.
>
> I think that has always been the case. You can always specify it as
> relative to the top. Of course, you can u
Joey Hess writes:
> Appears to be a bug in git. Seems that it's assuming GIT_INDEX_FILE is
> relative to the top of the worktree and not to the CWD.
I think that has always been the case. You can always specify it as
relative to the top. Of course, you can use absolute.
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joey@darkstar:/tmp>git init test
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/
joey@darkstar:/tmp>cd test
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test>mkdir sub
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test>cd sub
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test/sub>GIT_INDEX_FILE=../.git/otherindex git write-tree
fatal: Unable to create '/tmp/test/../.git/ot
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