On 3/11/07, Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref] wrote:
This environment variable can be used with GIT_DIR to
specify the toplevel working directory. When GIT_DIR is not
set this variable is ignored. As for GIT_DIR there is also
the option git --work-dir which overrides the environment
variable.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <redacted>