From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 08:50:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse: fix --git-common-dir when executed from subpath of main tree
Message-ID: <20160519085049.GA26914@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <1459734143-95832-1-git-send-email-rappazzo@gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 09:42:23PM -0400, Michael Rappazzo wrote:
> Executing `git-rev-parse --git-common-dir` from the root of the main
> worktree results in '.git', which is the relative path to the git dir.
> When executed from a subpath of the main tree it returned somthing like:
> 'sub/path/.git'.  Change this to return the proper relative path to the
> git directory (similar to `--show-cdup`).

Note that `git rev-parse --git-dir` returns an absolute path, not a
relative one. Shouldn't --git-common-dir "simply" return the same as
--git-dir when not in a worktree?

Mike