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[PATCHv5 4/5] submodules: ensure clean environment when operating in a submodule

From
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 24, 2010, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID
<1267054458-11877-5-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
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git-submodule used to take care of clearing GIT_DIR whenever it operated on a submodule index or configuration, but forgot to unset GIT_WORK_TREE or other repo-local variables. This would lead to failures e.g. when GIT_WORK_TREE was set.

This only happened in very unusual contexts such as operating on the main worktree from outside of it, but since "git-gui: set GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE after setup" (a9fa11fe5bd5978bb) such failures could also be provoked by invoking an external tool such as "git submodule update" from the Git Gui in a standard setup.

Solve by using the newly introduced clear_local_git_env() shell function to ensure that all repo-local environment variables are unset.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 5869c00..1ea4143 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ cmd_add()
 
 		module_clone "$path" "$realrepo" "$reference" || exit
 		(
-			unset GIT_DIR
+			clear_local_git_env
 			cd "$path" &&
 			# ash fails to wordsplit ${branch:+-b "$branch"...}
 			case "$branch" in
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ cmd_foreach()
 			name=$(module_name "$path")
 			(
 				prefix="$prefix$path/"
-				unset GIT_DIR
+				clear_local_git_env
 				cd "$path" &&
 				eval "$@" &&
 				if test -n "$recursive"
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ cmd_update()
 			module_clone "$path" "$url" "$reference"|| exit
 			subsha1=
 		else
-			subsha1=$(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" &&
+			subsha1=$(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" &&
 				git rev-parse --verify HEAD) ||
 			die "Unable to find current revision in submodule path '$path'"
 		fi
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ cmd_update()
 
 			if test -z "$nofetch"
 			then
-				(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" &&
+				(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" &&
 					git-fetch) ||
 				die "Unable to fetch in submodule path '$path'"
 			fi
@@ -477,14 +477,14 @@ cmd_update()
 				;;
 			esac
 
-			(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && $command "$sha1") ||
+			(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" && $command "$sha1") ||
 			die "Unable to $action '$sha1' in submodule path '$path'"
 			say "Submodule path '$path': $msg '$sha1'"
 		fi
 
 		if test -n "$recursive"
 		then
-			(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && cmd_update $orig_args) ||
+			(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" && cmd_update $orig_args) ||
 			die "Failed to recurse into submodule path '$path'"
 		fi
 	done
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ cmd_update()
 
 set_name_rev () {
 	revname=$( (
-		unset GIT_DIR
+		clear_local_git_env
 		cd "$1" && {
 			git describe "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
 			git describe --tags "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ cmd_status()
 		else
 			if test -z "$cached"
 			then
-				sha1=$(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git rev-parse --verify HEAD)
+				sha1=$(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" && git rev-parse --verify HEAD)
 				set_name_rev "$path" "$sha1"
 			fi
 			say "+$sha1 $displaypath$revname"
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ cmd_status()
 		then
 			(
 				prefix="$displaypath/"
-				unset GIT_DIR
+				clear_local_git_env
 				cd "$path" &&
 				cmd_status $orig_args
 			) ||
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ cmd_sync()
 		if test -e "$path"/.git
 		then
 		(
-			unset GIT_DIR
+			clear_local_git_env
 			cd "$path"
 			remote=$(get_default_remote)
 			say "Synchronizing submodule url for '$name'"
-- 
1.7.0.212.g5b851b.dirty
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  1. Giuseppe BilottaFeb 24, 2010
  2. 1/5 Refactor list of of repo-local env varsGiuseppe Bilotta, Feb 24, 2010
  3. 2/5 rev-parse: --local-env-vars optionGiuseppe Bilotta, Feb 24, 2010
  4. Heiko VoigtFeb 27, 2010
  5. 3/5 shell setup: clear_local_git_env() functionGiuseppe Bilotta, Feb 24, 2010
  6. 4/5 submodules: ensure clean environment when operating in a submoduleGiuseppe Bilotta, Feb 24, 2010
  7. 5/5 is_submodule_modified(): clear environment properlyGiuseppe Bilotta, Feb 24, 2010

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