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[StGit PATCH] Emacs mode: automatically cd up to root of worktree

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
May 14, 2008, 01:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20080514014820.7140.28591.stgit@yoghurt>
In-Reply-To
<20080514014309.GA17955@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

git's emacs mode automatically finds the root of the worktree, so that the user doesn't have to. Teach StGit's emacs mode the same trick by borrowing the git-get-top-dir function from git.

The borrowed code was written by Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
---
David, would you sanity check this for me?
 contrib/stgit.el |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/stgit.el b/contrib/stgit.el
index 339ef13..2a6fee3 100644
--- a/contrib/stgit.el
+++ b/contrib/stgit.el
@@ -12,9 +12,20 @@
 (defun stgit (dir)
   "Manage stgit patches"
   (interactive "DDirectory: \n")
-  (switch-to-stgit-buffer dir)
+  (switch-to-stgit-buffer (git-get-top-dir dir))
   (stgit-refresh))
 
+(defun git-get-top-dir (dir)
+  "Retrieve the top-level directory of a git tree."
+  (let ((cdup (with-output-to-string
+                (with-current-buffer standard-output
+                  (cd dir)
+                  (unless (eq 0 (call-process "git" nil t nil
+                                              "rev-parse" "--show-cdup"))
+                    (error "cannot find top-level git tree for %s." dir))))))
+    (expand-file-name (concat (file-name-as-directory dir)
+                              (car (split-string cdup "\n"))))))
+
 (defun switch-to-stgit-buffer (dir)
   "Switch to a (possibly new) buffer displaying StGit patches for DIR"
   (setq dir (file-name-as-directory dir))
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