Re: symlinked working tree gotcha

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Apr 25, 2011, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20110425190938.GA24744@gnu.kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqoajiz0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Two 'foo's makes it confusing to read so let's rephrase.
> 
> Given this structure:
> 
>     /tmp/foo/
>     /tmp/foo/.git/
>     /tmp/foo/hello
>     /tmp/sym@ -> foo
> 
> when you refer to /tmp/sym/hello where $(/bin/pwd) is /tmp/foo, should it
> be considered to be within the bounds of the working tree that is governed
> by your current $GIT_DIR (which is ".git")?

Hmm, my /bin/pwd does not return "/tmp/foo" when I've cd'd to "/tmp/sym".

> The answer is "perhaps yes, ideally speaking, but does it really matter in
> practice, or is it just nice to have?".

FWIW, my motivation for using the absolute path was that I wanted to always add $GIT_WORK_TREE/hello, but the add could be run when in a subdirectory of the repository, so "git add hello" might not add the right file.

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