tool and worktree

tool and worktree

[bill lam]

I track /etc using a config

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	worktree = /etc
	logAllRefUpdates = true
	excludesfile =

But that can not be handled by tools,

git gui : cannot use funny .git directory .
tig : status view said, The status view requires a working tree

Can these be improved?
 
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Re: tool and worktree

[Jonas Fonseca]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 04:44, bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
> I track /etc using a config
>
> [core]
>        repositoryformatversion = 0
>        filemode = true
>        bare = false
>        worktree = /etc
>        logAllRefUpdates = true
>        excludesfile =
>
> But that can not be handled by tools,
>
> tig : status view said, The status view requires a working tree

Yes, on startup, tig checks git-rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree and
disables things like the status view if it is false. I don't know how
much work it would be to start using core.worktree. It might be as
simple as setting the GIT_DIR environment to getcwd() + output of
git-rev-parse --git-dir and then chdir() to core.worktree.

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Re: tool and worktree

[Shawn O. Pearce]

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
> I track /etc using a config
> 
> [core]
> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
> 	filemode = true
> 	bare = false
> 	worktree = /etc
> 	logAllRefUpdates = true
> 	excludesfile =
> 
> But that can not be handled by tools,
> 
> git gui : cannot use funny .git directory .

If someone sends patches for git-gui, maybe.  This use case of
different repository and worktree isn't very common for git-gui
so it doesn't support it.

On Windows with some versions of Tcl/Tk I've had trouble in the
past with Git finding the repository when forked out of the wish
process.  To work around it I just required that the repository
be in ".git".

Have you tried making /etc/.git a symlink to the real repository?

BTW, tracking /etc/ in git won't track permissions and ownership
so restoring /etc from git isn't enough on its own.  Usually I
use some sort of shell script to copy /etc to another location
and check it into git, and a different script to go the other way,
with that script handling mode and ownership as it goes.

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Re: tool and worktree

[Jonas Fonseca]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:47, Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com> wrote:
> It might be as
> simple as setting the GIT_DIR environment to getcwd() + output of
> git-rev-parse --git-dir and then chdir() to core.worktree.

I have pushed a lightly tested patch that does something like this ...

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Re: tool and worktree

[bill lam]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:47, Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It might be as
> > simple as setting the GIT_DIR environment to getcwd() + output of
> > git-rev-parse --git-dir and then chdir() to core.worktree.
> 
> I have pushed a lightly tested patch that does something like this ...

Thanks. Now the status view works.

Since /etc contains both public and private files.  When browsing the
untracked files in the status view, for files that without read
permission, eg the shadow passwd file, the lower pane displays the
content of the last readable file.  Could it clear the content or just
filter and display only files with read permission for the untracked
files?

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Re: tool and worktree

[Jonas Fonseca]

2009/2/9 bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>:
> Since /etc contains both public and private files.  When browsing the
> untracked files in the status view, for files that without read
> permission, eg the shadow passwd file, the lower pane displays the
> content of the last readable file.  Could it clear the content or just
> filter and display only files with read permission for the untracked
> files?

It now closes the lower pane and displays the reason why it failed to
load the file using strerror().

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Re: tool and worktree

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On Sunday 08 February 2009 20:25, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I track /etc using a config
>> 
>> [core]
>> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
>> 	filemode = true
>> 	bare = false
>> 	worktree = /etc
>> 	logAllRefUpdates = true
>> 	excludesfile =
>> 
>> But that can not be handled by tools,
>> 
>> git gui : cannot use funny .git directory .
> 
> If someone sends patches for git-gui, maybe.  This use case of
> different repository and worktree isn't very common for git-gui
> so it doesn't support it.

I came across the same problem. I also sent a tentative patchset to
solve the problem about 12 hours ago:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109035

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