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From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
To: Yves Orton <yves.orton@booking.com>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git rev-parse: Fix --show-cdup inside symlinked   directory
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:08:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487CF5A4.2070700@dawes.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216141099.19334.196.camel@gemini>

Yves Orton wrote:

> Hmm, realizing that was the workdir it wanted i tried it like so:
> 
> [dmq@somewhere apps]$ git --work-tree="$(git-rev-parse --git-dir)/.."
> pull --rebase
> /usr/bin/git-sh-setup: line 139: cd: /home/dmq/git_tree/main/apps/.git:
> No such file or directory
> Unable to determine absolute path of git directory
> 
> Yet:
> 
> [dmq@somewhere apps]$ git-rev-parse --git-dir
> /home/dmq/git_tree/main/.git
> 
> is correct.
> 

Are you sure you don't want to specify the --git-dir rather than the 
work dir?

i.e.

git --git-dir="$(git-rev-parse --git-dir)" pull --rebase

Rogan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-15 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-15 14:13 git-rev-parse --show-cdup returns a relative path instead of absolute (problem with git pull --rebase not finding the git dir) Yves Orton
2008-07-15 14:59 ` [PATCH] git rev-parse: Fix --show-cdup inside symlinked directory Petr Baudis
2008-07-15 15:19   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-15 15:40     ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-15 16:41       ` Yves Orton
2008-07-15 16:58         ` Yves Orton
2008-07-15 19:08           ` Rogan Dawes [this message]
2008-07-15 20:26             ` Yves Orton

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