Re: [PATCH] Preserve cwd in setup_git_directory()

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On 7/24/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> >  On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> >
> >  > When GIT_DIR is not set, cwd is used to determine where .git is. If 
> >  > core.worktree is set, setup_git_directory() needs to jump back to 
> >  > the original cwd in order to calculate worktree, this leads to 
> >  > incorrect .git location later in setup_work_tree().
> >
> > I do not understand.  core.worktree is either absolute, in which case 
> > there is no problem.  Or it is relative to where the config lives, no?
> 
> The problem is GIT_DIR is not absolute in this case. So cwd must stay
> where git dir is until it is absolute-ized by setup_work_tree().

I do not see GIT_DIR being set in your test case at all.

I do not see how get_git_work_tree() ro get_relative_cwd() should ever be 
allowed to chdir().

_If_ they were (which I strongly doubt), they should chdir() back 
themselves.

I now wasted easily 30 minutes just trying to make sense of your patch and 
your response.  And I am still puzzled.

Your commit message was of no help.

This patch is definitely the opposite of "obviously correct".

Ciao,
Dscho