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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Antony Male <antony.male@gmail.com>,
	Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>,
	msysGit <msysgit@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] submodules: Use relative paths to gitdir and work tree
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:19:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4BF357.8020407@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4A8EF2.3020901@web.de>

Am 26.02.2012 20:58, schrieb Jens Lehmann:
> Am 26.02.2012 18:38, schrieb Johannes Sixt:
>> -	a=$(cd "$gitdir" && pwd)
>> -	b=$(cd "$path" && pwd)
>> +	a=$(cd "$gitdir" && pwd -W)
>> +	b=$(cd "$path" && pwd -W)
>>  	while [ "$b" ] && [ "${a%%/*}" = "${b%%/*}" ]
>>  	do
>>  		a=${a#*/} b=${b#*/};
> 
> I don't understand why you need this. Does "pwd" sometimes return a
> path starting with "c:/" and sometimes "/c/" depending on what form
> you use when you cd into that directory?

It looks like this is the case. I was surprised as well. I hoped that
pwd -P would fix it, but it makes no difference. I should have tested
pwd -L as well, but I forgot.

> -       gitdir=$(git rev-parse --git-dir)
> +       gitdir=$(git rev-parse --git-dir | sed -e 's,^\([a-z]\):/,/\1/,')

I don't like pipelines of this kind because they fork yet another
process. But it looks like there are not that many alternatives...

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-08 22:08 [PATCH 0/2] submodules: Use relative paths to gitdir and work tree Jens Lehmann
2012-02-08 22:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] submodules: always use a relative path to gitdir Jens Lehmann
2012-02-09  8:18   ` [PATCH v2 " Jens Lehmann
2012-02-09 19:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-09 19:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-09 20:13       ` Jens Lehmann
2012-02-08 22:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] submodules: always use a relative path from gitdir to work tree Jens Lehmann
2012-02-09  8:18   ` [PATCH v2 " Jens Lehmann
2012-02-13 19:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-14 17:36       ` Jens Lehmann
2012-02-14 20:24         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-14 20:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-15 22:18             ` Jens Lehmann
2012-02-26 17:38 ` [PATCH 0/2] submodules: Use relative paths to gitdir and " Johannes Sixt
2012-02-26 19:58   ` Jens Lehmann
2012-02-27 21:19     ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-02-27 21:41       ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
2012-02-28 18:58       ` Johannes Sixt
2012-02-28 19:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-28 19:33           ` Jens Lehmann
2012-02-28 19:21         ` Jens Lehmann

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