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Re: Built-in checkout: wrong behaviour in subdirectories

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2008, 23:21 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> Junio: it looks like something used to cause read-tree to be run with 
> pwd being the working tree root in git-checkout.sh.

"Something"? I think we explicitly cdup when switching branches, and we should do the same in C rewrite.

        # We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
        # we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
        cd_to_toplevel
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  1. Clemens BuchacherFeb 20, 2008
  2. Daniel BarkalowFeb 20, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2008
  5. Daniel BarkalowFeb 21, 2008
  6. checkout: work from a subdirectoryJunio C Hamano, Feb 20, 2008

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