From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:10:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' when used with relative $GIT_DIR
Message-ID: <7vhcgf8da6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200802110228.05233.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> When using the '-w $cvsdir' option to cvsexportcommit, it will chdir into
> $cvsdir before executing several other git commands. If $GIT_DIR is set to
> a relative path (e.g. '.'), the git commands executed by cvsexportcommit
> will naturally fail with "fatal: Not a git repository".
>
> Therefore, if $GIT_DIR is relative, prepend $PWD to $GIT_DIR before the
> chdir to $cvsdir.

That sounds like a correct thing to do.  Robin?