From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:10:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [fixed PATCH] git-filter-branch.sh: Fix broken setting of GIT_DIR
Message-ID: <7vveblltmw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46BDB0E7.3020506@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Actually, wouldn't by far the most straightforward thing be if
>> git-rev-parse --git-dir always returned an absolute path (even when
>> being passed a relative path in GIT_DIR)?
>>
>
> That might also help get rid of an annoying failure mode where some
> git commands (the shell script ones) fail if you cd into a git
> repository via a symlink, while others (the builtins) work just fine.

It might be the easiest workaround for this issue to unset PWD
in git-sh-setup.sh (and git-clone.sh) where we unset CDPATH.
Anybody wants to try to come up with additional test scripts to
expose the problem and a patch to these two files?