You can also tell git that the .git dir is completely separated from the working dir:
alias dogit='GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/src/dir GIT_DIR=/path/to/dotgit/dir git'
dogit pull remote treeish
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I set this up as a "poor man's version control" on a large client's server back in 2016-ish. I was lost for words when last year I saw my colleagues still using Ctrl-R to rerun that alias line.
I set this up as a "poor man's version control" on a large client's server back in 2016-ish. I was lost for words when last year I saw my colleagues still using Ctrl-R to rerun that alias line.