From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: [fixed PATCH] git-filter-branch.sh: Fix broken setting of GIT_DIR Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:51:51 +0800 Message-ID: <46BDB0E7.3020506@midwinter.com> References: <868x8j7aj2.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <864pj74ay9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <7vk5s2mllf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <85r6mawedp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <858x8iw9q1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 11 14:52:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJqS0-0004oV-5p for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:52:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751479AbXHKMv5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751380AbXHKMv5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:51:57 -0400 Received: from tater2.midwinter.com ([216.32.86.91]:54329 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751274AbXHKMv4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:51:56 -0400 Received: (qmail 26362 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2007 12:51:56 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200606; d=midwinter.com; b=vQhvQPgd2XZFlSS2FPMBcbgPgyRO9sObUvlxVoZd/sTrmhEzCpNf42Xl2hrTFSlr ; Received: from localhost (HELO sgrimm-mbp.local) (koreth@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Aug 2007 12:51:55 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) In-Reply-To: <858x8iw9q1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Actually, wouldn't by far the most straightforward thing be if > git-rev-parse --git-dir always returned an absolute path (even when > being passed a relative path in GIT_DIR)? > That might also help get rid of an annoying failure mode where some git commands (the shell script ones) fail if you cd into a git repository via a symlink, while others (the builtins) work just fine. -Steve