Re: Bug: git add with absolute path fails if repo root dir is a symlink

From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Date: Dec 27, 2010, 08:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20101227081312.GA12735@sajinet.com.pe>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPxhqwMebfTw9oHucuvABmSBynpZgG1zp6uwVz@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:23:12AM +0300, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

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> > I can't run git add with absolute path if the repository's root
> > directory is a symlink.
> 
> Note that this issue is also triggered if *any* of the directories in
> path above of my repo are symlinks.

When using absolute path names, git will compare the path given with the git work tree and any name that is referred through a symlink in that will trigger a mismatch.

> Is there a way to quickly workaround this somehow?

use relative paths (implemented below through an alias named "myadd") :

[alias]
        myadd = "!sh -c 'cd `dirname \"$1\"` && git add `basename \"$1\"`' -"

so in your workflow you would use "myadd" instead of "add" to convert your absolute paths (with symlinks) into relative paths

Carlo