Re: Shouldn't git-ls-files --others use $GIT_DIR?

On 11/19/06, Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:37:42PM CET, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

quoted

If I do

GIT_DIR=$HOME/projects/<project>/.git git ls-files --others

from, e.g., $HOME, I get a list of all the files in $HOME and its
subdirectories that aren't in said git repository.  Shouldn't --others
use $GIT_DIR, instead of ".", or am I missing something here?

git-ls-files --others lists untracked files in the current directory by
comparing it to the index stored in $GIT_DIR/index and listing files
present in the current directory but not in the index.

Ah, of course; how silly of me.  Thanks.