document updated 12 years ago, on May 2, 2012

By default, the special Git files are started in ./.git/, located at the root of the working tree.

However, this is only the default behavior. It is not difficult to separate the two:

	Git directory	Working tree
env variables	`$GIT_DIR`	`$GIT_WORK_TREE`
cmdline args	--git-dir	--work-tree
git config		core.worktree
other		git clone --separate-git-dir
other	a specially-formatted file called .git

It's also possible to have no working tree: