Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement poor-man's submodule support in pre-commit hook
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
- Date
- Dec 20, 2006, 12:35 UTC
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- <45892E16.2040301@op5.se>
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Brian Gernhardt wrote:
>
>> On Dec 20, 2006, at 5:08 AM, Andy Parkins wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Help...
>>>
>>>> +if [ -f .gitmodules ]; then
>>> This doesn't work because git-commit is not necessarily in the root
>>> of the
>>> working tree. How do I safely get that root? While ${GIT_DIR}/..
>>> would work
>>> it is not guaranteed.
>> The way to do that seems to be "git rev-parse --git-dir". I'm not
>> sure why it's not just "git --git-dir" or similar (probably just
>> historical reasons), but there you go.
>
> Because it is "git --git-dir=<PATH>" to set it (probably).
> Although it is not insurmountable difficulity...AFAIR, the discussions long ago went along the lines of "if no argument is passed to any of the --*-dir options, print out the current value". If "git --git-dir" doesn't print the directory name of the .git directory inside the repo you're currently in, I'd consider it a bug.
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