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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [fixed PATCH] git-filter-branch.sh: Fix broken setting of GIT_DIR
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:10:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vveblltmw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46BDB0E7.3020506@midwinter.com> (Steven Grimm's message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:51:51 +0800")

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> 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.

It might be the easiest workaround for this issue to unset PWD
in git-sh-setup.sh (and git-clone.sh) where we unset CDPATH.
Anybody wants to try to come up with additional test scripts to
expose the problem and a patch to these two files?

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-11 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-10 14:02 [PATCH] git-filter-branch.sh: Fix broken setting of GIT_DIR David Kastrup
2007-08-10 16:21 ` [fixed PATCH] " David Kastrup
2007-08-11 10:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-11 10:32     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 12:12       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 12:29         ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 19:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-11 21:04             ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 22:02             ` [PATCH] Add a test for git-commit being confused by relative GIT_DIR David Kastrup
2007-08-12  1:55               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-12  6:47                 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 17:05                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-12 18:44                     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-11 12:51         ` [fixed PATCH] git-filter-branch.sh: Fix broken setting of GIT_DIR Steven Grimm
2007-08-11 20:10           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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