Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make git-svn work with gitdir links

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
> > index c232798..e5bd292 100755
> > --- a/git-svn.perl
> > +++ b/git-svn.perl
> > @@ -332,11 +332,13 @@ if ($cmd && $cmd =~ /(?:clone|init|multi-init)$/) {
> >  		$ENV{GIT_DIR} = command_oneline([qw/rev-parse --git-dir/]);
> >  	} "Unable to find .git directory\n";
> >  	my $cdup = undef;
> > +	my $git_dir = delete $ENV{GIT_DIR};
> >  	git_cmd_try {
> >  		$cdup = command_oneline(qw/rev-parse --show-cdup/);
> >  		chomp $cdup if ($cdup);
> >  		$cdup = "." unless ($cdup && length $cdup);
> > -	} "Already at toplevel, but $ENV{GIT_DIR} not found\n";
> > +	} "Already at toplevel, but $git_dir not found\n";
> > +	$ENV{GIT_DIR} = $git_dir;
> >  	chdir $cdup or die "Unable to chdir up to '$cdup'\n";
> >  	$_repository = Git->repository(Repository => $ENV{GIT_DIR});
> >  }
> 
> This does not look quite right, though.
> 
> Can't the user have his own $GIT_DIR when this command is invoked?
> The first command_oneline() runs rev-parse with that environment and
> get the user specified value of GIT_DIR in $ENV{GIT_DIR}, but by
> doing a "delete" before running --show-cdup, you are not honoring
> that GIT_DIR (and GIT_WORK_TREE if exists) the user gave you.  You
> already used that GIT_DIR when you asked rev-parse --git-dir to find
> what the GIT_DIR value should be, so you would be operating with
> values of $git_dir and $cdup that you discovered in an inconsistent
> way, no?
> 
> Shouldn't it be more like this instead?
> 
> 	my ($git_dir, $cdup) = undef;
>         try {
> 		$git_dir = command_oneline(qw(rev-parse --git-dir));
> 	} "Unable to ...";
>         try {
> 		$cdup = command_oneline(qw(rev-parse --show-cdup));
> 		... tweak $cdup ...
> 	} "Unable to ...";
> 	if (defined $git_dir) { $ENV{GIT_DIR} = $git_dir; }
> 	chdir $cdup;

Thanks, I'll squash the following and push a new branch.  I don't
believe the (defined $git_dir) check is necessary since we already
checked for errors with git_cmd_try.

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index e5bd292..b46795f 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -324,19 +324,18 @@ for (my $i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++) {
 	}
 };
 
 # make sure we're always running at the top-level working directory
 if ($cmd && $cmd =~ /(?:clone|init|multi-init)$/) {
 	$ENV{GIT_DIR} ||= ".git";
 } else {
+	my ($git_dir, $cdup);
 	git_cmd_try {
-		$ENV{GIT_DIR} = command_oneline([qw/rev-parse --git-dir/]);
+		$git_dir = command_oneline([qw/rev-parse --git-dir/]);
 	} "Unable to find .git directory\n";
-	my $cdup = undef;
-	my $git_dir = delete $ENV{GIT_DIR};
 	git_cmd_try {
 		$cdup = command_oneline(qw/rev-parse --show-cdup/);
 		chomp $cdup if ($cdup);
 		$cdup = "." unless ($cdup && length $cdup);
 	} "Already at toplevel, but $git_dir not found\n";
 	$ENV{GIT_DIR} = $git_dir;
 	chdir $cdup or die "Unable to chdir up to '$cdup'\n";

-- 
Eric Wong