Re: [Bug] git pull doesn't recognize --work-tree parameter

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

  $ mkdir .git/tmp
  $ cd .git/tmp
  $ git rebase
  fatal: fatal: /home/peff/local/git/private/libexec/git-core/git-rebase
  cannot be used without a working tree.

So that case is already broken. The only change this would make is that
what used to fail would not actually take them to the top-level of the
working tree[1].

Ugh. It does work if you do:

  mkdir .git/tmp
  cd .git/tmp
  GIT_DIR=$PWD/.. git rebase

Actually, this one is OK. Presense of GIT_DIR combined with the lack of
GIT_WORK_TREE means that .git/tmp must be the top of the working tree, so
it is the script's responsibility to populate the directory with what
matches to $GIT_DIR/index between "mkdir" and "rebase" in the above
sequence.

So I suspect we won't have to worry about this case either.