Re: [Bug] Custom git-dir directory shouldn't be listed as“untracked”

Nicolas Cuillery [off-list ref] writes:

When using the default directory ".git", it logically doesn't appear
in the "git status" command's output. Don't you think it should be the
same when using a custom dir name ?

Not really.

GIT_DIR=<there> mechanism was never meant to be used to name a
directory that sitsinside your working tree (an exception is if it
is actually ".git" at the top).