Re: [RFC] require-work-tree wants more than what its name says

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Check out some of the older scripts in contrib/examples. Several of them
require_work_tree, but do not cd_to_toplevel immediately; instead, they
do it much later for some specific bits.

Another datapoint I found was "clean".

It used to say "you have to be inside work tree" in the scripted version.
Imagine what builtin/clean.c does today?  It has NEED_WORK_TREE bit in the
command table in git.c and that bit means "We need to have a work tree
that we can later chdir to if we wanted to".