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[PATCH] worktree: provide better prefix to go back to original cwd

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 6, 2010, 13:59 UTC
Message-ID
<1286373578-2484-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

When both GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE are set, if cwd is outside worktree, prefix (the one passed to every builtin commands) will be set to NULL, which means "user stays at worktree topdir".

As a consequence, command line arguments are supposed to be relative to worktree topdir, not current working directory. Not very intuitive. Moreover, output from such situation is (again) relative to worktree topdir. Users are expected to understand that.

This patch allows builtin commands access to original cwd even if it's outside worktree, via cwd_to_worktree and worktree_to_cwd fields. As the name implies, if you stay at original cwd, "cd $(cwd_to_worktree)" would take you to worktree topdir and vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 startup_info->cwd_to_worktree would be as same as opt.submodule_prefix
 in your 2/3 patch.
 builtin/rev-parse.c        |   10 ++++
 cache.h                    |    2 +
 setup.c                    |  108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 t/t1510-worktree-prefix.sh |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t1510-worktree-prefix.sh
diff --git a/builtin/rev-parse.c b/builtin/rev-parse.c
index a5a1c86..525610e 100644
--- a/builtin/rev-parse.c
+++ b/builtin/rev-parse.c
@@ -623,6 +623,16 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 					puts(prefix);
 				continue;
 			}
+			if (!strcmp(arg, "--cwd-to-worktree")) {
+				if (startup_info->cwd_to_worktree)
+					puts(startup_info->cwd_to_worktree);
+				continue;
+			}
+			if (!strcmp(arg, "--worktree-to-cwd")) {
+				if (startup_info->worktree_to_cwd)
+					puts(startup_info->worktree_to_cwd);
+				continue;
+			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--show-cdup")) {
 				const char *pfx = prefix;
 				if (!is_inside_work_tree()) {
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 2ef2fa3..8256e1c 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1110,6 +1110,8 @@ const char *split_cmdline_strerror(int cmdline_errno);
 /* git.c */
 struct startup_info {
 	int have_repository;
+	char *cwd_to_worktree; /* chdir("this"); from cwd would return to worktree */
+	char *worktree_to_cwd; /* chdir("this"); from worktree would return to cwd */
 };
 extern struct startup_info *startup_info;
 
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index a3b76de..413703b 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -313,10 +313,109 @@ const char *read_gitfile_gently(const char *path)
 	return path;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Given "foo/bar" and "hey/hello/world", return "../../hey/hello/world/"
+ * Either path1 or path2 can be NULL
+ */
+static char *make_path_to_path(const char *path1, const char *path2)
+{
+	int nr_back = 0;
+	int i, pathlen = path2 ? strlen(path2) : 0;
+	char *buf, *p;
+
+	if (path1 && *path1) {
+		nr_back = 1;
+		while (*path1) {
+			if (*path1 == '/')
+				nr_back++;
+			path1++;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (!nr_back && !pathlen)
+		return NULL;
+
+	p = buf = xmalloc(3*nr_back + pathlen + 2); /* "../"^nr_back + path2 + '/' + NULL */
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_back; i++) {
+		memcpy(p, "../", 3);
+		p += 3;
+	}
+	if (pathlen) {
+		memcpy(p, path2, pathlen);
+		p += pathlen;
+		*p++ = '/';
+	}
+	*p = '\0';
+	return buf;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return a prefix if cwd inside worktree, or NULL otherwise.
+ * Also fill startup_info struct.
+ */
+static const char *setup_prefix(const char *cwd)
+{
+	const char *worktree = get_git_work_tree();
+	int len = 0, cwd_len = strlen(cwd), worktree_len = strlen(worktree);
+
+	while (worktree[len] && worktree[len] == cwd[len])
+		len++;
+
+	if (!worktree[len] && !cwd[len]) {
+		if (startup_info) {
+			startup_info->cwd_to_worktree = NULL;
+			startup_info->worktree_to_cwd = NULL;
+		}
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	/* get /foo/, not /foo/baa if /foo/baa1 and /foo/baa2 are given */
+	else if (worktree[len] && cwd[len]) {
+		while (len && worktree[len] != '/')
+			len--;
+		len++;
+	}
+	else {
+		if (worktree[len]) {
+			if (worktree[len] != '/') {
+				while (len && worktree[len] != '/')
+					len--;
+			}
+		}
+		else {
+			if (cwd[len] != '/') {
+				while (len && cwd[len] != '/')
+					len--;
+			}
+		}
+		len++;		/* must be a slash here, skip it */
+	}
+
+	if (len < cwd_len && len < worktree_len) {
+		if (startup_info) {
+			startup_info->cwd_to_worktree = make_path_to_path(cwd+len, worktree+len);
+			startup_info->worktree_to_cwd = make_path_to_path(worktree+len, cwd+len);
+		}
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (startup_info) {
+		if (len < cwd_len) { /* cwd inside worktree */
+			startup_info->cwd_to_worktree = make_path_to_path(cwd+len, NULL);
+			startup_info->worktree_to_cwd = make_path_to_path(NULL, cwd+len);
+		}
+		else {
+			startup_info->cwd_to_worktree = make_path_to_path(NULL, worktree+len);
+			startup_info->worktree_to_cwd = make_path_to_path(worktree+len, NULL);
+		}
+	}
+
+	return len < cwd_len ? cwd+len : NULL;
+}
+
 static const char *setup_explicit_git_dir(const char *gitdirenv,
 				const char *work_tree_env, int *nongit_ok)
 {
-	static char buffer[1024 + 1];
+	static char buffer[PATH_MAX];
 	const char *retval;
 
 	if (PATH_MAX - 40 < strlen(gitdirenv))
@@ -337,9 +436,10 @@ static const char *setup_explicit_git_dir(const char *gitdirenv,
 	}
 	if (check_repository_format_gently(nongit_ok))
 		return NULL;
-	retval = get_relative_cwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1,
-			get_git_work_tree());
-	if (!retval || !*retval)
+	if (!getcwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer)))
+		die_errno("can't find the current directory");
+	retval = setup_prefix(buffer);
+	if (!retval)
 		return NULL;
 	set_git_dir(make_absolute_path(gitdirenv));
 	if (chdir(work_tree_env) < 0)
diff --git a/t/t1510-worktree-prefix.sh b/t/t1510-worktree-prefix.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3839493
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t1510-worktree-prefix.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='test rev-parse --cwd-to-worktree and --worktree-to-cwd'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'setup' '
+	mkdir foo bar &&
+	mv .git foo &&
+	mkdir foo/bar &&
+	GIT_DIR=`pwd`/foo/.git &&
+	GIT_WORK_TREE=`pwd`/foo &&
+	export GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'at root' '
+	(
+	cd foo &&
+	git rev-parse --cwd-to-worktree --worktree-to-cwd >result &&
+	: >expected &&
+	test_cmp expected result
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'cwd inside worktree' '
+	(
+	cd foo/bar &&
+	git rev-parse --cwd-to-worktree --worktree-to-cwd >result &&
+	echo ../ >expected &&
+	echo bar/ >>expected &&
+	test_cmp expected result
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'cwd outside worktree' '
+	git rev-parse --cwd-to-worktree --worktree-to-cwd >result &&
+	echo foo/ >expected &&
+	echo ../ >>expected &&
+	test_cmp expected result
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'cwd outside worktree (2)' '
+	(
+	cd bar &&
+	git rev-parse --cwd-to-worktree --worktree-to-cwd >result &&
+	echo ../foo/ >expected &&
+	echo ../bar/ >>expected &&
+	test_cmp expected result
+	)
+'
+
+test_done
-- 
1.7.0.2.445.gcbdb3
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