Re: TopGit: ensure worktree (was: [TopGit PATCH] Check for help invocation before setup)

From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Date: Nov 21, 2008, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20081121122347.GA19916@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90811210415g7b50c5c1m3185bf19cab104aa@mail.gmail.com>

also sprach Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> [2008.11.21.1315 +0100]:

> I CC'ed Junio, because I think this git rev-parse --git-dir is
> a bug. For example you can try starting git gui inside a .git dir.

You might want to let him know of your intention. :)

> A patch would depent on your --help patch, Because help should
> work everywhere. So either I wait for you or do do it.

No, not depend, but the patch makes the --help situation slightly worse, for now you cannot call --help inside .git anymore either. This will force us to fix the --help situation quicker.

I've run out of time, for a while at least. If you want to pick up the pieces and convert argument parsing to POSIX getopt, or maybe even better, git-rev-parse --parseopt, then please go for it. You can find my current TopGit branch at

  http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/topgit.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fixes/independent-help
  git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/topgit.git, branch fixes/independent-help

If you use Debian: debcheckout topgit (requires devscripts 2.10.40)

Thanks,

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