Re: "GIT_INDEX_FILE" environment variable

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 22, 2005, 10:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20050422103519.GB14565@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmvr72j6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 08:23:41AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

> >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>  - Further admit that to support it without core layer help,
>    what Cogito layer needs to do involves quite a lot of "yuck"
>    factor.

I actually thought that I would just walk to parent directories at the time of invocation, to find the .git directory, then save that to $gitdir and use that to always reference to it, setting also GIT_INDEX_FILE etc. I basically just postponed this until I have some kind of library or something, and do all this stuff in a single common init routine. I think it should be doable pretty well in Cogito alone, but of course I won't mind if someone does it in git core. ;-)

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