From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: j6t@kdbg.org, egg_mushroomcow@foxmail.com, bootaina702@gmail.com,
Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/11] git-gui: use git rev-parse for worktree discovery
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 16:24:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260520202411.108764-7-mlevedahl@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260520202411.108764-1-mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git gui uses a combination of tcl code and git invocations to determine
the worktree and the location with respect to the worktree root
(_prefix). But, git rev-parse provides all of this information directly,
and assures full error and configuration checking are done by git
itself. The entirety of discovery in normal configurations involves
git rev-parse --show-toplevel (gets worktree root)
git rev-parse --show-prefix (shows location wrt the root)
An error thrown on either of these lines means the worktree discovered
by git is unusable, or git did not discover a worktree because the
current directory is inside the repository. If the user has defined
GIT_DIR or GIT_WORK_TREE, this is a user configuration error and git-gui
should stop.
Otherwise, the blame or browser subcommands can be used without a
worktree.
A separate error might occur when changing to the root of the discovered
worktree. The cause would be file system related and completely outside
of git's control. So, the final "cd $worktree_root" is separately
trapped.
Discovery of the repository and the worktree must be guarded to trap
errors: the intent is that any configuration problems are caught during
discovery, and later processing need not include error trapping and
recovery. So, move all worktree discovery code to be immediately after
repository discovery.
This does move configuration loading to occur after worktree discovery
rather than before. None of the code executed in worktree discovery has
any option controlled by a git-gui configuration variable, so no impact
is expected. git itself will always read the repository configuration,
including worktree specific configuration data if that exists, so this
is unaffected by when git-gui loads its own config data, and we cannot
be sure the full worktree dependent configuration can be loaded before
full discovery is complete.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
---
git-gui.sh | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index 936c309e59..8fe25fe188 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -1164,6 +1164,36 @@ if {$_gitdir eq {}} {
set picked 1
}
+# find worktree, continue without if not required
+if {[catch {
+ set _gitworktree [git rev-parse --show-toplevel]
+ set _prefix [git rev-parse --show-prefix]
+} err]} {
+ if {[is_gitvars_error $err]} {
+ exit 1
+ }
+ set _gitworktree {}
+ set _prefix {}
+}
+
+if {![is_bare]} {
+ if {[catch {
+ cd $_gitworktree
+ } err]} {
+ catch {wm withdraw .}
+ error_popup [strcat [mc "Cannot change to discovered worktree: "] \
+ "$_gitworktree" "\n\n$err"]
+ exit 1;
+ }
+} elseif {![is_enabled bare]} {
+ catch {wm withdraw .}
+ error_popup [strcat [mc "Cannot use bare repository:"] "\n\n" $_gitdir]
+ exit 1
+}
+
+# repository and worktree config are complete, export them
+set_gitdir_vars
+
# Use object format as hash algorithm (either "sha1" or "sha256")
set hashalgorithm [git rev-parse --show-object-format]
if {$hashalgorithm eq "sha1"} {
@@ -1179,37 +1209,6 @@ if {$hashalgorithm eq "sha1"} {
load_config 0
apply_config
-set _gitworktree [git rev-parse --show-toplevel]
-
-if {$_prefix ne {}} {
- if {$_gitworktree eq {}} {
- regsub -all {[^/]+/} $_prefix ../ cdup
- } else {
- set cdup $_gitworktree
- }
- if {[catch {cd $cdup} err]} {
- catch {wm withdraw .}
- error_popup [strcat [mc "Cannot move to top of working directory:"] "\n\n$err"]
- exit 1
- }
- set _gitworktree [pwd]
- unset cdup
-} elseif {![is_enabled bare]} {
- if {[is_bare]} {
- catch {wm withdraw .}
- error_popup [strcat [mc "Cannot use bare repository:"] "\n\n$_gitdir"]
- exit 1
- }
- if {$_gitworktree eq {}} {
- set _gitworktree [file dirname $_gitdir]
- }
- if {[catch {cd $_gitworktree} err]} {
- catch {wm withdraw .}
- error_popup [strcat [mc "No working directory"] " $_gitworktree:\n\n$err"]
- exit 1
- }
- set _gitworktree [pwd]
-}
set _reponame [file split [file normalize $_gitdir]]
if {[lindex $_reponame end] eq {.git}} {
set _reponame [lindex $_reponame end-1]
@@ -1217,9 +1216,6 @@ if {[lindex $_reponame end] eq {.git}} {
set _reponame [lindex $_reponame end]
}
-# Export the final paths
-set_gitdir_vars
-
######################################################################
##
## global init
--
2.54.0.99.14
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-20 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-21 16:28 [PATCH] git-gui: handle bare repo or missing worktree Shroom Moo
2026-04-29 6:58 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-04-29 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] git-gui: protect rev-parse --show-toplevel call Shroom Moo
2026-04-29 20:14 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-04-30 10:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] git-gui: handle missing worktree and separated gitdir Shroom Moo
2026-04-30 16:18 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-01 10:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] git-gui: handle missing worktree and separated Shroom Moo
2026-05-01 13:13 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] git-gui: handle missing worktree and separated gitdir Johannes Sixt
2026-05-01 16:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-02 21:51 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-03 8:53 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-04 15:13 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-05 3:40 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-06 7:32 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-06 11:27 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-06 12:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-06 14:05 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-07 5:09 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v4 " Shroom Moo
2026-05-04 14:59 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] git-gui: restructure repository startup Shroom Moo
2026-05-06 7:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-06 20:27 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] git-gui: robustify startup and fix environment handling Shroom Moo
2026-05-09 13:37 ` [PATCH v7 " Shroom Moo
2026-05-14 14:28 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 00/11] Improve git gui operation without a worktree Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 01/11] git-gui: allow specifying path '.' to the browser Mark Levedahl
2026-05-15 15:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 13:38 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 02/11] git-gui: refactor browser / blame argument parsing Mark Levedahl
2026-05-15 15:56 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 14:21 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 03/11] git-gui: guard set/unset of GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE Mark Levedahl
2026-05-15 15:58 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 14:25 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 04/11] git-gui: put choose_repository::pick in a proc Mark Levedahl
2026-05-15 11:00 ` Aina Boot
2026-05-15 13:33 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-15 15:59 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 14:29 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 05/11] git-gui: use --absolute-git-dir Mark Levedahl
2026-05-15 16:00 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 14:33 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 06/11] git gui: GIT_DIR / GIT_WORK_TREE make any discovery error fatal Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 07/11] git-gui: use rev-parse exclusively to find a repository Mark Levedahl
2026-05-15 16:06 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 14:38 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 08/11] git-gui: simplify [is_bare] to report if a worktree is known Mark Levedahl
2026-05-16 8:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 09/11] git-gui: support using repository parent dir as a worktree Mark Levedahl
2026-05-16 8:14 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 14:48 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 10/11] git-gui: improve worktree discovery Mark Levedahl
2026-05-16 8:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 15:28 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-19 8:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-19 19:00 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-14 14:33 ` [PATCH v1 11/11] git-gui: add gui and pick as explicit subcommands Mark Levedahl
2026-05-16 8:18 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 15:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-19 8:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-19 18:45 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-19 21:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-16 8:28 ` [PATCH v1 00/11] Improve git gui operation without a worktree Johannes Sixt
2026-05-20 20:23 ` [PATCH v2 " Mark Levedahl
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] git-gui: guard set/unset of GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE Mark Levedahl
2026-05-22 8:06 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] git-gui: return status from choose_repository::pick Mark Levedahl
2026-05-22 8:18 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] git-gui: use --absolute-git-dir Mark Levedahl
2026-05-22 8:25 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] git-gui: use rev-parse exclusively to find a repository Mark Levedahl
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] git-gui: simplify [is_bare] to report if a worktree is known Mark Levedahl
2026-05-20 20:24 ` Mark Levedahl [this message]
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] git-gui: try harder to find worktree from gitdir Mark Levedahl
2026-05-21 4:55 ` Shroom Moo
2026-05-21 17:45 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] git-gui: use HEAD as current branch when detached (bug fix) Mark Levedahl
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] git-gui: allow specifying path '.' to the browser Mark Levedahl
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] git-gui: adapt blame/browser parsing for bare operation Mark Levedahl
2026-05-21 5:02 ` Shroom Moo
2026-05-21 17:35 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-20 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] git-gui: add gui and pick as explicit subcommands Mark Levedahl
[not found] ` <20260509133756.1367-1-egg_mushroomcow@foxmail.com>
2026-05-09 13:37 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] git-gui: restructure repository startup Shroom Moo
2026-05-15 8:26 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-09 13:37 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] git-gui: disable gitk visualization when no worktree available Shroom Moo
2026-05-15 8:28 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-09 13:37 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] git-gui: handle GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE early Shroom Moo
2026-05-15 8:28 ` Johannes Sixt
[not found] ` <20260506202751.3294-1-egg_mushroomcow@foxmail.com>
2026-05-06 20:27 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] git-gui: restructure repository startup Shroom Moo
2026-05-06 20:27 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] git-gui: disable gitk visualization when no worktree available Shroom Moo
2026-05-06 20:27 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] git-gui: handle GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE early Shroom Moo
2026-05-07 15:50 ` Mark Levedahl
2026-05-09 8:46 ` Aina Boot
2026-05-09 9:55 ` Shroom Moo
2026-04-29 18:28 ` [PATCH] git-gui: handle bare repo or missing worktree Shroom Moo
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