Re: [RFC] Run hooks with a cleaner environment

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
>> 
>> > GIT_DIR is set to the repository that got the push,
>> 
>> That is done by receive-pack; it chdir()s into the repository
>> and does its thing, and the hooks are called from there; I'd
>> expect cwd to be the repository ('.git'), GIT_DIR to be dot
>> ('.').
>
> I thought I was seeing the full path of the repository as GIT_DIR and I 
> didn't check the cwd.

I do not do this myself, but I was wondering what would happen
if somebody has "export GIT_DIR=/var/filfre" in ~/.profile.

Well, I know what would happen, actually --- things would not
work when you do fetch/push because the tools want to use the
path given from the other end but the environment overrides it
with GIT_DIR.