Re: [PATCH] git-init: set up GIT_DIR/workdir if GIT_WORK_DIR is set

On 3/12/07, Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref] wrote:

Putting $GIT_WORK_DIR as is into $GIT_DIR/workdir is probably not what
the user expects because the content of $GIT_DIR/workdir is
interpreted relative to $GIT_DIR, not the current working directory.
Example:

    /tmp$ mkdir repository working_directory
    /tmp$ git --git-dir=repository --work-dir=working_directory init

If git init puts 'working_directory' into $GIT_DIR/workdir it would
make the associated working directory $GIT_DIR/working_directory =
/tmp/repository/working_directory and not /tmp/working_directory.

The alternative to use

    /tmp$ git --git-dir=repository --work-dir=../working_directory init

seems quite confusing to me.

If you've any other idea to solve this please tell me.

Let users create $GIT_DIR/workdir themselves. Your way may be less
confusing to you but might be more confusing to me because I _might_
expect a relative workdir setting (for example I move the repository
and the working directory together to another place).

-- 
Duy