Re: [RFC] introduce GIT_WORK_DIR environment variable

From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Mar 11, 2007, 13:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20070311133350.GA12553@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0703110542t49bb3e77kb164ba7bfee1a6ed@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> My case seems a bit complicated than usual. The working directory
> (/home/pclouds/blog/data) was not a prefix of cwd (/home/pclouds/blog)
> so the code failed silently at this line. If I replace
> "has_working_directory = 0; return NULL;" with "strcpy(cwd,gitwd);c =
> 0;break;", it may work but see below

If you're outside the specifed working directory the is_bare_repository will return true, just as if you don't have a working directory. Do you expect anything else or doesn't this work?

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