Re: Git 1.8.4.2: 'git-rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir' wrong output!

["Øystein Walle" <oystwa@gmail.com>]

Ville Walveranta <walveranta <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> "git-rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir" outputs "fatal: Not a git
> repository (or any of the parent directories): .git", instead of
> "false" when outside of a git directory.  "--is-inside-work-tree"
> behaves the same way. Both commands work correctly (i.e. output
> "true") when inside a git directory, or inside a work tree,
> respectively.
> 
> To test, I installed git 1.8.4.2 initially from
> https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa for Ubuntu 12.04.3, and
> then also compiled it from source, but both seem to behave the same
> way. The problem is not yet present in version 1.7.9.5.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ville Walveranta
>

Hi,

I thought I'd try to bisect this but I ended up discovering that I get
the exact same behaviour with both 1.7.9.5 and 1.8.4.2. 1.7.9.5 will
also output 'fatal: ...' like 1.8.4.2 does.

Both version will however behave as expected if you provide --git-dir
and --work-tree:

    $ pwd
    /home/osse
    $ git --version
    git version 1.8.4.2
    $ git --git-dir=/home/osse/git/.git \
          --work-tree=/home/osse/git    \
        rev-parse  --is-inside-work-tree
    false

Ditto for --is-inside-git-dir.

Incidentally I discovered that the new -C option does *not* behave this
way:

$ git --version
git version 1.8.5.rc0.23.gaa27064
$ git -C /home/osse/git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree
true

But given that the purpose of the -C option is to make Git behave as if
you were in that directory this is perhaps expected behaviour.

Regards,
Øsse