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authorLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2009-12-29 14:48:41 +0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-29 07:57:54 -0800
commitf5e025a9d5b35e24768475f6890b836ce0d5ed15 (patch)
tree070c2c0e0ff142e5997c7316539004de87ec8e96 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'nf/maint-fix-index-ext-len-on-be64' into maint (diff)
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Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set
The value of core.worktree in a ".git/config" is honored even when it differs from the directory that has the ".git" directory as its subdirectory. This is likely to be a misconfiguration, so warn users about it. Also, drop the part of the documentation that incorrectly claimed that we ignore such a misconfigured value. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a1e36d7e42..b5b27ba8d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -297,17 +297,24 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
= true).
core.worktree::
- Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be
- used in combination with repositories found automatically in
- a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set).
+ Set the path to the root of the work tree.
This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
variable and the '--work-tree' command line option. It can be
- a absolute path or relative path to the directory specified by
- --git-dir or GIT_DIR.
- Note: If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of
+ an absolute path or a relative path to the .git directory,
+ either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR, or automatically
+ discovered.
+ If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of
--work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
- the current working directory is regarded as the top directory
- of your working tree.
+ the current working directory is regarded as the root of the
+ work tree.
++
+Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration
+file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory, and its value differs
+from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has
+core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a
+misconfiguration. Running git commands in "/path/to" directory will
+still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause
+great confusion to the users.
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file