[PATCH v2 0/3] nd/clear-gitenv-upon-use-of-alias

["Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

Changes since v1:

 - make sure we save/restore env for external commands in 2/3
 - fix t0001 test in 3/3

Interdiff:

diff --git b/git.c a/git.c
index 83b6c56..da278c3 100644
--- b/git.c
+++ a/git.c
@@ -229,7 +229,6 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged)
 static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 {
 	int envchanged = 0, ret = 0, saved_errno = errno;
-	const char *subdir;
 	int count, option_count;
 	const char **new_argv;
 	const char *alias_command;
@@ -237,7 +236,7 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 	int unused_nongit;
 
 	save_env_before_alias();
-	subdir = setup_git_directory_gently(&unused_nongit);
+	setup_git_directory_gently(&unused_nongit);
 
 	alias_command = (*argv)[0];
 	alias_string = alias_lookup(alias_command);
@@ -296,8 +295,7 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 		ret = 1;
 	}
 
-	if (subdir && chdir(subdir))
-		die_errno("Cannot change to '%s'", subdir);
+	restore_env(0);
 
 	errno = saved_errno;
 
@@ -534,9 +532,13 @@ static void handle_builtin(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	builtin = get_builtin(cmd);
 	if (builtin) {
-		if (saved_env_before_alias)
-			restore_env(0);
-		else
+		/*
+		 * XXX: if we can figure out cases where it is _safe_
+		 * to do, we can avoid spawning a new process when
+		 * saved_env_before_alias is true
+		 * (i.e. setup_git_dir* has been run once)
+		 */
+		if (!saved_env_before_alias)
 			exit(run_builtin(builtin, argc, argv));
 	}
 }
diff --git b/t/t0001-init.sh a/t/t0001-init.sh
index 19539fc..295aa59 100755
--- b/t/t0001-init.sh
+++ a/t/t0001-init.sh
@@ -88,24 +88,14 @@ test_expect_success 'plain nested in bare through aliased command' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'No extra GIT_* on alias scripts' '
-	cat <<-\EOF >expected &&
-	GIT_ATTR_NOSYSTEM
-	GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
-	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
-	GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
-	GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
-	GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
-	GIT_EXEC_PATH
-	GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT
-	GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY
-	GIT_PREFIX
-	GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
-	GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR
-	GIT_TRACE_BARE
-	EOF
+	(
+		env | sed -ne "/^GIT_/s/=.*//p" &&
+		echo GIT_PREFIX &&        # setup.c
+		echo GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR    # wrapper-for-bin.sh
+	) | sort | uniq >expected &&
 	cat <<-\EOF >script &&
 	#!/bin/sh
-	env | grep GIT_ | sed "s/=.*//" | sort >actual
+	env | sed -ne "/^GIT_/s/=.*//p" | sort >actual
 	exit 0
 	EOF
 	chmod 755 script &&

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (3):
  git.c: make it clear save_env() is for alias handling only
  setup.c: re-fix d95138e (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when ..
  git.c: make sure we do not leak GIT_* to alias scripts

 environment.c    |  2 --
 git.c            | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 t/t0001-init.sh  | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 t/t5601-clone.sh | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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