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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nicolas Cuillery <nicolas.cuillery@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] Custom git-dir directory shouldn't be listed as “untracked”
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:45:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeg4fg4w6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACmQg1hE=ytaatDfUJLkhL0p5c43wZZvgt+8pc5zoo0YFdQw6A@mail.gmail.com> (Nicolas Cuillery's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:26:42 +0200")

Nicolas Cuillery <nicolas.cuillery@gmail.com> 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).

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-19 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-19 14:26 [Bug] Custom git-dir directory shouldn't be listed as “untracked” Nicolas Cuillery
2016-09-19 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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