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[PATCH] Change git-rev-parse --show-cdup to output an absolute path

From
koreth@midwinter.com <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date
Apr 25, 2007, 23:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20070425232829.GA15930@midwinter.com>

Add a test case for deep symlinking into a repo, which breaks with the old relative output of --show-cdup.

Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
---

I have a symlink pointing to a subdirectory of a repo of mine. If I cd to that symlink, some shell-script git commands don't work. Shell scripts use the PWD environment variable as the working directory, and the chain of "../"s from git-rev-parse --show-cdup just peels entries off that variable. That's fine when PWD is a real path, but not so great when it's a reference to a symlink from an outside directory.

A typical failure case:

$ git clone git://whatever.git foobar $ ln -s foobar/src/tools/misc/myapp myapp $ cd myapp $ git pull fatal: Not a git repository

This patch adds a test for the problem (fails in the current git build) and a proposed fix: making git-rev-parse --show-cdup output an absolute path. It's possible that'll break something somewhere, but all the tests in the test suite pass, so I think the breakage can't be *too* severe if there's any at all.

 builtin-rev-parse.c       |   18 +++++++++---------
 t/t6102-rev-parse-cdup.sh |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t6102-rev-parse-cdup.sh
diff --git a/builtin-rev-parse.c b/builtin-rev-parse.c
index 37addb2..99a95eb 100644
--- a/builtin-rev-parse.c
+++ b/builtin-rev-parse.c
@@ -320,15 +320,15 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 				continue;
 			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--show-cdup")) {
-				const char *pfx = prefix;
-				while (pfx) {
-					pfx = strchr(pfx, '/');
-					if (pfx) {
-						pfx++;
-						printf("../");
-					}
-				}
-				putchar('\n');
+				char cwd[PATH_MAX];
+				/*
+				 * The prefix computation does chdir("..") until it
+				 * reaches the top level, so the current directory
+				 * is actually the thing we want to output.
+				 */
+				if (!getcwd(cwd, PATH_MAX))
+					die("unable to get current working directory");
+				printf("%s/\n", cwd);
 				continue;
 			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--git-dir")) {
diff --git a/t/t6102-rev-parse-cdup.sh b/t/t6102-rev-parse-cdup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..233d9cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t6102-rev-parse-cdup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007 Steven Grimm
+#
+
+test_description='Test git-rev-parse --show-cdup'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+. ../t6000lib.sh # t6xxx specific functions
+
+# Make a subdirectory and a symbolic link pointing to it from outside the repo.
+mkdir subdir
+ln -s `pwd`/subdir /tmp/git-test.$$
+cd /tmp/git-test.$$
+
+test_expect_success 'shell pwd references symlink' "pwd | grep git-test.$$"
+test_expect_success 'cdup goes to top level of repo' '
+	cd `git-rev-parse --show-cdup` &&
+	test -d .git'
+
+rm /tmp/git-test.$$
+
+test_done
+
-- 
1.5.2.rc0.1.g2cc31
Next: Alex Riesen
Message 1 of 6 in “Change git-rev-parse --show-cdup to output an absolute path”
  1. Change git-rev-parse --show-cdup to output an absolute pathkoreth@midwinter.com, Apr 25, 2007
  2. Alex RiesenApr 26, 2007
  3. Steven GrimmApr 26, 2007
  4. Use PATH_MAX rather than a hardwired constant maximum length.koreth@midwinter.com, Apr 26, 2007
  5. Alex RiesenApr 26, 2007
  6. Alex RiesenApr 26, 2007

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