Re: [PATCH] git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink into a git work-dir

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Dec 3, 2008, 07:20 UTC

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<7viqq1hghw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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"Marcel M. Cary" <marcel@oak.homeunix.org> writes:

> If cd_to_toplevel had concatenated $(/bin/pwd) with $cdup to
> avoid the separate "cd", it would require checking for $cdup
> being an absolute path.  I wasn't sure how to check that in
> a way that is both portable and clearly faster than "cd",

    case "$v" in
    /*) : handle absolute path ;;
    *) : everything else ;;
    esac

In all shells that support "case..esac", it is built-in.