From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Draisey Subject: local git push bug wrt GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:08:20 -0500 Message-ID: <1135922900.2103.37.camel@della.draisey.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 30 07:13:43 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsDWI-0001Gh-2L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:13:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751174AbVL3GNc (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:13:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751176AbVL3GNc (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:13:32 -0500 Received: from tomts10.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.54]:62878 "EHLO tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751174AbVL3GNc (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:13:32 -0500 Received: from [192.168.2.3] ([67.70.2.178]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20051230061328.GQKS14963.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.2.3]> for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:13:28 -0500 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Originating-IP: [0] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Using git-send-pack to push to a local repository will propagate the environment variable GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to git-receive-pack. git-receive-pack correctly ignores GIT_DIR (as opposed to what the documentation says) but, unfortunately, honours GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY. It's not clear to me whether the correct behaviour is for git-send-pack to clean up its environment before it execs or for git-receive-pack to ignore most GIT variables. Interposing a short script with env -i or env -uGIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY is the easiest workaround.