From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:02:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Move git-dir for submodules
Message-ID: <20110722190223.GA27076@kolya>
In-Reply-To: <7vhb6f1ipp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Thanks for the review. I'll send an updated series soon.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:28:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Is it really necessary to have an ugly
> loop to make things relative, though?
The path must be relative to allow the superproject to be moved
around.

> I wonder if we want a new option to "git rev-parse" so that we can say
> 
> 	git rev-parse --is-well-formed-git-dir init/.git
> 
> to perform these checks without exposing the implimentation detail.

How about using
(cd <repo>; git rev-parse --verify HEAD" >/dev/null)
instead?

Med vänliga hälsningar
Fredrik Gustafsson