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

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I just thought that GIT_WORK_DIR should be relative to the current
working directory because it's more intuitive, e.g.

    $ git --git-dir=/path/to/repo.git --work-dir=../.. add a

where ../.. matches the path to the toplevel working directory from
cwd.  But this definitely is annoying when changing directories.

Not so fast.  That was a trick suggestion, only meant to see if
you have thought through the issues, and you did not have to
agree with me so quickly ;-).

Well, I have no strong feelings for either handling because I'll
probably always use `pwd`/relative/path anyway.

Is there anything more to this decision than this?

GIT_WORK_DIR relative to cwd:
    git --work-dir <path> [..] is more intuitive

GIT_WORK_DIR relative to $GIT_DIR:
    $GIT_DIR/workdir and $GIT_WORK_DIR are interpreted exactly the
    same way, which primarily makes it easier to implement git init
    with --work-dir :-)

By the way, I do not find your command line example intuitive at
all, whether the --work-dir= parameter is relative or absolute.
Do you honestry expect that loooong command line is something
people would use in real life?

For one-shot things I prefer --git-dir and --work-dir over
GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_DIR because they are lowercase and for
GIT_WORK_DIR it's even shorter; and all the examples were one-shot
things (well, one used the same --git-dir twice).