Re: git gui error with relocated repository

>On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Pat,
>>
>> I'm running git 2.0.0-rc0 (haven't got round to pulling down rc1 yet)
>> which includes gitgui-0.19.0 and I'm getting a new error when I run
>> 'git gui' in a repository with a .git file (created by git submodule).
>>
>> I can send you a screencap of the error message off list if you want
>> but the text is
>>
>> "No working directory ../../../<repo>
>>
>> couldn't change working directory to ../../../<repo>: no such file or directory"
>
>My tcl is a little rusty but I think the problem might be this snippet.
>
># v1.7.0 introduced --show-toplevel to return the canonical work-tree
>if {[package vsatisfies $_git_version 1.7.0]} {
>    if { [is_Cygwin] } {
>        catch {set _gitworktree [exec cygpath --windows [git rev-parse
>--show-toplevel]]}
>    } else {
>        set _gitworktree [git rev-parse --show-toplevel]
>    }
>} else {
>    # try to set work tree from environment, core.worktree or use
>    # cdup to obtain a relative path to the top of the worktree. If
>    # run from the top, the ./ prefix ensures normalize expands pwd.
>    if {[catch { set _gitworktree $env(GIT_WORK_TREE) }]} {
>        set _gitworktree [get_config core.worktree]
>        if {$_gitworktree eq ""} {
>            set _gitworktree [file normalize ./[git rev-parse --show-cdup]]
>        }
>    }
>}
>
>The  vsatisfies call probably doesn't handle '2.0.0.rc0' and the
>fallback behaviour probably needs to normalise core.worktree
>

>>
>> Here's some other info that might help
>>
>>   $ git --version
>>   git version 2.0.0.rc0
>>
>>   $ cat .git
>>   gitdir: ../.git/modules/<repo>
>>
>>   $ git rev-parse --git-dir
>>   /home/chris/src/<super>/.git/modules/<repo>
>>
>>   $ git config core.worktree
>>   ../../../<repo>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>