Merge branch 'jk/long-error-messages'

diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 01cb28dda922a3ce36836d19d30467381c561f51..a533aed630c20a5e0718bcea4375875a44896416 100644 (file)
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ void set_git_work_tree(const char *new_work_tree)
        }
        git_work_tree_initialized = 1;
        work_tree = xstrdup(real_path(new_work_tree));
+       if (setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, work_tree, 1))
+               die("could not set GIT_WORK_TREE to '%s'", work_tree);
 }
 
 const char *get_git_work_tree(void)