Re: [TopGit PATCH] tg-patch: fix invocation in sub working tree directory

[Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 23:33, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> tg patch won't work in a sub directory of the working tree, because 'git diff
>> --name-only' prints the names relative to the top working tree.
>
> "diff --relative --name-only"?
No, unfortunately. In my bug case the changed file was in another
subtree, and --relative restricts the output to only files under the
current subtree.

>
>> This is only a quick fix which prefixes all file names with 'git rev-parse
>> --show-cdup'. The right solution would be to cd into the top working tree
>> somewhere in tg.sh.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
>>
>> ---
>>  tg-patch.sh |    7 ++++++-
>>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tg-patch.sh b/tg-patch.sh
>> index d701c54..e33bab2 100644
>> --- a/tg-patch.sh
>> +++ b/tg-patch.sh
>> @@ -50,13 +50,18 @@ cat_file "$topic:.topmsg"
>>  echo
>>  [ -n "$(git grep $diff_opts '^[-]--' ${diff_committed_only:+"$name"} -- ".topmsg")" ] || echo '---'
>>
>> +# if we are in a sub working tree dir, we need to prefix all file names from
>> +# git diff --name-only with this cdup
>> +cdup=$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)
>> ...
>> +     sed -e "s#^#$cdup#" "$git_is_stupid" |
>
> Do TopGit folks care about special characters in pathnames?
Do 'git rev-parse --show-cdup' return anything other than slashes and dots?

Bert