From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:15:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Fix gitdir detection when in subdir of gitdir
Message-ID: <7vy6x8rnpk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090119020311.GA8753@neumann>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@fzi.de> writes:

> Thanks.  In the meantime I was working on a patch that sets relative
> path in this case, too.

Does it make sense to use relative path in such a case?

If it is for "rev-parse --git-dir", the calling script may learn the
correct location of the GIT_DIR with either relative or absolute, but if
it is for the internal consumption of git process itself and any
subprocess forked from us that look at GIT_DIR we export, the process
already runs at the repository root (because you do not chdir back) and
using relative path does not make much sense.  Exported GIT_DIR has to be
either "."  or the full path from the root to make sense to such a user, I
think.