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Re: git rev-parse --git-dir does report yield relative path to git directory, per documentation

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
May 17, 2012, 18:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20120517182304.GA14367@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<xmqqfwayrcen.fsf@junio.mtv.corp.google.com>
Hi,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
Show 5 quoted lines
>> Per this advice in git-rev-parse(1):
>>
>>      Show $GIT_DIR if defined. Otherwise show the path to the .git
>> directory, relative to the current directory.
>> ...
[...]
> I am not sure what we were smoking.
Yeah, that text is pretty confusing.  Thanks for finding it.
The intent was:
	Show the path to the git repository database (usually $GIT_DIR or
	".git").  When relative, this path is relative to the current
	directory.

The point of that last part is that this is relative to the cwd when rev-parse is called and not relative to the top level of the worktree.

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Message 3 of 7 in “git rev-parse --git-dir does report yield relative path to git directory, per documentation”
  1. Jon SeymourMay 17, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2012
  3. Jonathan NiederMay 17, 2012
  4. Documentation: git-rev-parse: clarify that --git-dir does not necessarily show relative pathsJon Seymour, May 18, 2012
  5. Jonathan NiederMay 18, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2012
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 18, 2012

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