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

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Nov 2, 2013, 12:54 UTC
Message-ID: <11593D3DCFCD4D24BB881B9E5FAB79C0@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <20131102105816.GC24023@serenity.lan>

From: "John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 10:58 AM

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> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:19:51PM -0500, Ville Walveranta wrote:
>> "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.
>
> I think that's intentional - and it looks like the behaviour has not
> changed since these options were added.  With the current behaviour 
> you
> get three possible outcomes from "git 
> rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree":
>
>    if worktree=$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree 2>/dev/null)
>    then
>        if test "$worktree" = true
>        then
>            echo 'inside work tree'
>        else
>            echo 'in repository, but not in work tree'
>        fi
>    else
>        echo 'not in repository'
>    fi
> --

Shouldn't this case which produces "fatal:..." need to be documented in the man page? https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rev-parse.html doesn't mention it.

Philip