Re: git-branch --print-current

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 5, 2009, 02:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20090105021832.GA20973@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vvitwio.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The version im using, from git version 1.6.0.4.724.ga0d3a produces the
> > following error:
> >
> > cut: ./HEAD: No such file or directory
> >
> > when in the .git/refs directory.
> 
> Personally, I think you are nuts to be in .git/refs and want to use that
> information for anything useful, but if it is an easy enough fix, a patch
> would be useful.

I agree, its nuts to be there. But this also does show up in 1.6.1. What's odd is the output of rev-parse --git-dir is wrong:

  $ cd .git/refs
  $ git rev-parse --git-dir
  .

Its *not* ".", its "..", I'm *in* the directory. This throws off a lot of the other operations we do in __git_ps1, like detecting the repository state by checking MERGE_HEAD or rebase-apply.

I think we should fix rev-parse --git-dir if we can, not the bash completion code.

-- 
Shawn.