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[PATCH] clone: the given repository dir should be relative to $PWD

From
Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com>
Date
Oct 14, 2006, 12:02 UTC
Message-ID
<87ac3zqebs.wl@mail2.atmark-techno.com>

the repository argument for git-clone should be relative to $PWD instead of the given target directory. The old behavior gave us surprising success and you need a few minute to know why it worked.

GIT_DIR is already exported so no need to cd into $D. And this makes $PWD for git-fetch-pack, which is the actual command to take the given repository dir, the same as git-clone.

Signed-off-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com>
---

While I'm not sure this is a feature we rely on or not, and I don't want to change the way people work, IMHO the old behaviour isn't appropriate for such higher level porcelain.

The patch should be for post 1.4.3.
 git-clone.sh                  |    2 +-
 t/t5600-clone-fail-cleanup.sh |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index 3998c55..bf54a11 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ yes,yes)
 		fi
 		;;
 	*)
-		cd "$D" && case "$upload_pack" in
+		case "$upload_pack" in
 		'') git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet "$repo" ;;
 		*) git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet "$upload_pack" "$repo" ;;
 		esac >"$GIT_DIR/CLONE_HEAD" || {
diff --git a/t/t5600-clone-fail-cleanup.sh b/t/t5600-clone-fail-cleanup.sh
index 0c6a363..041be04 100755
--- a/t/t5600-clone-fail-cleanup.sh
+++ b/t/t5600-clone-fail-cleanup.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ test_create_repo foo
 # clone doesn't like it if there is no HEAD. Is that a bug?
 (cd foo && touch file && git add file && git commit -m 'add file' >/dev/null 2>&1)
 
+# source repository given to git-clone should be relative to the
+# current path not to the target dir
+test_expect_failure \
+    'clone of non-existent (relative to $PWD) source should fail' \
+    'git-clone ../foo baz'
+
 test_expect_success \
     'clone should work now that source exists' \
     'git-clone foo bar'
-- 
1.4.2.3
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