From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git ate my home directory :-( Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:20:16 -0700 Message-ID: <7v38vjw28v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <5150C3EC.6010608@nod.at> <20130325214343.GF1414@google.com> <7vboa7w2vm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <5150CB34.1030008@nod.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: Richard Weinberger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 25 23:20:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKFl1-0006or-Jc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:20:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933468Ab3CYWUT (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:20:19 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:41610 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933448Ab3CYWUS (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:20:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B01EBE80; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:20:18 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=1KJNRd000NO16CtT7BQdrcX4qpg=; b=N3JRZu li8VHGbXX8sPNA2UEjz9pL4d9MmxWF+71qF/x/L4htwig3IbniT+E52B5GZmP5ho 4UGWwaSAx8al0DR3JWUG3Mo4eBG0gvJj4ZwNqXJbdi2gtXDi6kXNuxk9oC6tDsJH OLEyYeRBqFuTFk54uB3xZVjmCb0X/Uadcc8Zg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=ToqH+mnWQjLI1paJ/HslW7wjzKnJ8Qc3 HhVNJl3Q+UbrEesR+684qZMIRp28ORK2yNBFHEM+yuFGD1EteA3FkOhQwX7KXJ// IYBgqvotx2kg4vJqkYLC63oTVFUBQsSJQHvoFEAmo5rpRLxdw40KskZzr7+dwGKI D1PCxpQ/NLU= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D34DBE7F; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:20:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [24.4.35.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DAF2DBE7B; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:20:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5150CB34.1030008@nod.at> (Richard Weinberger's message of "Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:09:56 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2C867B68-959A-11E2-9D27-EA7A2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Richard Weinberger writes: > Okay, I have to set GIT_DIR _and_ GIT_WORK_TREE to make my scripts safe again? > I've always set only GIT_DIR because it just worked (till today...). That means you never run your script inside a subdirectory ;-) If your $GIT_DIR is tied to a single working tree, a simpler way would be to add [core] worktree = /path/to/the/work/tree/ to $GIT_DIR/config.