Re: git-{diff,ls}-files from a subdirectory fails ...

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 24, 2007, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710241104560.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071024012038.GA31326@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:

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> ... when GIT_DIR is specified.
> 
> I have a repository at ~/stgit-lib. With cwd at the top of the tree,
> things work as expected when I set all those fancy envoronment
> variables:
> 
>   kha@yoghurt:~/stgit-lib> git-diff-files --name-only
>   stgit/utillib.py
> 
>   kha@yoghurt:~/stgit-lib> GIT_DIR=/home/kha/stgit-lib/.git GIT_INDEX_FILE=/home/kha/stgit-lib/.git/index GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/kha/stgit-lib git-diff-files --name-only
>   stgit/utillib.py
> 
> However, it doen't seem to work from a subdirectory:
> 
>   kha@yoghurt:~/stgit-lib/stgit> git-diff-files --name-only
>   stgit/utillib.py
> 
>   kha@yoghurt:~/stgit-lib/stgit> GIT_DIR=/home/kha/stgit-lib/.git GIT_INDEX_FILE=/home/kha/stgit-lib/.git/index GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/kha/stgit-lib git-diff-files --name-only | wc
>       170     170    3560

>From looking at it (very) briefly, it seems that you encountered the same

bug that was fixed in

dd5c8af176bb935a0b01a7dc2d5e022565c3aac3(Fix setup_git_directory_gently() with relative GIT_DIR & GIT_WORK_TREE).

IOW if you run git version v1.5.3.4-14-gdd5c8af or newer, you should not experience this.

Hth, Dscho