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[PATCH 0/4] repo: add support for path-related fields

From
Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 28, 2026, 22:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20260228224252.72788-1-lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Hi!

This patch series adds support for path-related fields in repo-info, based on what we already have in git-rev-parse:

1. The two first patches moves the path formatting used by git-rev-parse to
   path.c. This will allow us to reuse this code in git-repo-info
2. The second patch add a new flag --path-format to git-repo-info, similar to
   the flag of git-rev-parse with the same name
3. Add the new field `path.toplevel` as a proof of concept.

This arises from the fact that I didn't know what should be the default behavior of git-repo-info when dealing with paths. Some ideas were:

1. Add --path-format, just like we have in git-rev-parse
2. Use what rev-parse uses by default
3. Add keys for both relative and absolute formats

In this case, I'm using 1, but I'm not sure if it's the best option. One downside that I see here is that git-repo-info won't be able to return a relative and an absolute path for different keys in the same call.

Since there are many people interested in contributing to git-repo-info, I'll leave the remaining path-related fields to them :-)

I'm CC'ing here:
- brian, who was the original author of the `print_path` [1]
- Ayush, Tian, Jayatheerth, Soutrik and Pushkar, since they expressed interested
  in contributing to git-repo-info in GSoC. (I hope that I didn't forget anyone)

This patch is based on top of master 2cc7191751 (The 8th batch, 2026-02-27) with lo/repo-leftover-bits merged.

[1] fac60b8925 (rev-parse: add option for absolute or relative path formatting, 2020-12-13)
Lucas Seiki Oshiro (4):
  rev-parse: prepend `path_` to path-related enums
  path: add new function strbuf_add_path
  repo: add the --format-path flag
  repo: add the field path.toplevel
 Documentation/git-repo.adoc |  8 ++-
 builtin/repo.c              | 67 +++++++++++++++++++------
 builtin/rev-parse.c         | 98 +++++++------------------------------
 path.c                      | 51 +++++++++++++++++++
 path.h                      | 23 +++++++++
 t/t1900-repo-info.sh        | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
-- 
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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Message 1 of 26 in “repo: add support for path-related fields”
  1. 0/4 repo: add support for path-related fieldsLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  2. 1/4 rev-parse: prepend `path_` to path-related enumsLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  3. 2/4 path: add new function strbuf_add_pathLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  4. 3/4 repo: add the --format-path flagLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  5. 4/4 repo: add the field path.toplevelLucas Seiki Oshiro, Feb 28, 2026
  6. Tian YuchenMar 1, 2026
  7. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  8. Tian YuchenMar 2, 2026
  9. JAYATHEERTH KMar 1, 2026
  10. Ayush JhaMar 1, 2026
  11. JAYATHEERTH KMar 1, 2026
  12. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  13. Ayush JhaMar 3, 2026
  14. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  15. Phillip WoodMar 1, 2026
  16. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 1, 2026
  17. brian m. carlsonMar 1, 2026
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2026
  19. Tian YuchenMar 2, 2026
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2026
  21. JAYATHEERTH KMar 3, 2026
  22. Tian YuchenMar 3, 2026
  23. JAYATHEERTH KMar 3, 2026
  24. Tian YuchenMar 3, 2026
  25. JAYATHEERTH KMar 3, 2026
  26. Lucas Seiki OshiroMar 8, 2026

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