From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:32:49 GMT
Subject: Re: rev-parse --show-cdup in .git
Message-ID: <7vhbs6skzi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B192EAE.8000806@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> I'm sure this was discussed somewhere, but I can't find it:
>
> When called from within .git, git rev-parse --show-cdup returns nothing
> rather than "..", not even an error code. Is this intended?

I do not think --show-cdup should be linked to --is-inside-work-tree in
any way, if that is what you are getting at by mentioning "error code".

> This is all the more disturbing since the cwd of hooks seems to be
> GIT_DIR. Is that something one can rely upon? In that case one can
> simply use ".." for cdup.

I think you will see something that is different from and is more sensible
than ".." when you use GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable (or its
corresponding configuration variable).