From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:51:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [fixed PATCH] git-filter-branch.sh: Fix broken setting of GIT_DIR
Message-ID: <46BDB0E7.3020506@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <858x8iw9q1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup wrote:
> Actually, wouldn't by far the most straightforward thing be if
> git-rev-parse --git-dir always returned an absolute path (even when
> being passed a relative path in GIT_DIR)?
>   

That might also help get rid of an annoying failure mode where some git 
commands (the shell script ones) fail if you cd into a git repository 
via a symlink, while others (the builtins) work just fine.

-Steve