Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
> 
> 	This fixes "git --work-tree=/some/where/else checkout-index".
> 
>  git.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
> index 25b8274..f8c4545 100644
> --- a/git.c
> +++ b/git.c
> @@ -315,7 +315,8 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
>  		{ "branch", cmd_branch, RUN_SETUP },
>  		{ "bundle", cmd_bundle },
>  		{ "cat-file", cmd_cat_file, RUN_SETUP },
> -		{ "checkout-index", cmd_checkout_index, RUN_SETUP },
> +		{ "checkout-index", cmd_checkout_index,
> +			RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE},
>  		{ "check-ref-format", cmd_check_ref_format },
>  		{ "check-attr", cmd_check_attr, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
>  		{ "cherry", cmd_cherry, RUN_SETUP },
With this patch I'm not able to do

	git checkout-index --prefix=/tmp/exportdir -a

to export an entire tree as described in git-checkout-index(1) in a bare
repo.

(Not that I need it, but I claimed on #git that it works, ... )

BTW: I didn't try if reverting this patch helps, but probably it does.

Best regards
Uwe

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Uwe Kleine-K