Re: [PATCH] emacs: make 'git-status' work with separate git dirs
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de> writes:
>
>> when trying 'M-x git-status' in a submodule created with recent (1.7.5+)
>> git, the command fails with
>>
>> | ... is not a git working tree
>>
>> This is caused by creating submodules with '--separate-git-dir' but
>> still checking for a working tree by testing for a '.git' directory.
>>
>> The patch fixes this by relaxing the existing detection a little bit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
>> ---
>
> This script already relies on the assumption that nobody sane would
> create a directory named ".git" that is not a git repository, and
> this loosens the assumption that nobody would create a file named
> ".git", either. So I would think it is a sane thing to do, but just
> in case if the area expert has better ideas, I am forwarding it.
>
> Ack?
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Alexandre Julliard
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