Re: [PATCH 3/4] Server-side support for user-relative paths.

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 2, 2005, 08:30 UTC
Message-ID: <43687914.6080906@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vek5z6h3f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
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>>Remove the redundant code from {receive,upload}-pack.c in favour of the
>>library code in path.c (previous patch) with documentation of the changes
>>to the affected programs.
> 
> 
> I like the simplification of these two calling sites, but it
> makes me feel uneasy to see the workhorse named is_git_repo().
> 
> The name implies a check to see if the given path is a git repo
> or not (i.e. side-effect free predicate), while what it actually
> does are three things: (1) resolve and check, (2) chdir to it,
> (3) set up GIT_DIR environment.  Not that I have a better name
> in mind...
>

I went with this implementation because when I tried to break it up I had to add the chdir() and putenv() calls in the three callers. No programs in the git-suite tries to resolve the canonical path of a repo without subsequently entering it and using it.

Perhaps it should be enter_repo() or some such? Optionally with is_git_repo() as a separate function?

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>>+	SSH Is the default transport protocol and also supports an
> 
> 
> Just a typo ("Is")?
>

Yes.

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