Re: Dropping core.worktree and GIT_WORK_TREE support

Miklos Vajna [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 05:30:54PM -0700, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Heh, if we are to do the attention-getter, let's do so more strongly ;-)

Does this include removing of --work-tree as well?

The git backend of Pootle (http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/) uses
it.

Interesting.  Does it use it because it can (meaning, --work-tree is
supposed to work), or because --work-tree is the cleanest way to do what
it wants to do (if the feature worked properly, that is, which is not the
case)?

Also, here is a question:

$ git --git-dir git/.git --work-tree git diff --stat|tail -n 1
 1443 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 299668 deletions(-)

So, it's like it thinks every file is removed.

But then:

$ cd git
$ git diff --stat|wc -l
0

is this a bug, or a user error?

I  think it is among the many other things that falls into "the two
attempts still haven't resolved" category.