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Subject: Re: Bug? clone ignores --git-dir
To:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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On 2019-11-27 5:33 a.m., Junio C Hamano wrote:
> An intentional design decision (and it may be an unfortunate one by
> now [*1*]) was to have the GIT_DIR (hence --git-dir) talk about the
> *source side* of the clone, not the destination, e.g.

Ah ha, the following does what I want, regardless of 
`GIT_DIR`/`GIT_WORK_TREE`:

> git init repository
> GIT_DIR=bogus GIT_WORK_TREE=bogus git --work-tree directory clone repository directory/.git

Thank you!