Re: BUG: "--work-tree blah" does not imply "--git-dir blah/.git" or fix misleading error message

Carlos Martín Nieto [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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subdirectory "blah/.git"), but I do not think this is likely to change, as
I suspect that people and scripts are relying on the current behaviour to
be able to do something like this:

    cd /pub/scm/git/git.git ;# this is a bare repository
    mkdir /var/tmp/git
    git --work-tree=/var/tmp/git checkout

This is in fact the way that many (or from what I can see the most
popular) tutorials for abusing git as a deployment system tell you to
run it (though more often than not setting GIT_WORKTREE in the
environment).

Heh, *ab*using is a good description if they really mean to use it as a
deployment system. For one thing it won't do anything a proper deployment
should do if the target directory is not empty ;-)