Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] git-find-git: a new helper.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 24, 2005, 06:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7viruiy3ag.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4385528D.7010203@yahoo.it>

Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>  git-find-git uses it to find the
>> top-level, and if it was run from a subdirectory, outputs shell
>> script fragments that can be evaled to define the two variables:
>>     GIT_DIR_PREFIX is a string to be prepended to cwd relative
>>     paths to make them repository relative.
>>     GIT_DIR_UPLEVEL is a string (e.g. "../") for the command to
>>     use to cd to the top-level of repository.
>>
> Sounds very good.
>
> I did't had the time to test it but I think I can now
> easily update qgit to run from a subdirectory with this new helper.

The helper might be good, but it turns out that the idea of using it from git-sh-setup was not that great, so please disregard the third part of the patch. I think I need a bit more thinking about this.