From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:04:52 GMT
Subject: Re: bug with .git file and aliases
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0907200704sb097a99h1ab8f118be5854f9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0907200654q2e068e6aq3051c122f6596053@mail.gmail.com>

2009/7/20 Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us>:
> git 1.6.3.3 has a bug related to .git file support and aliases.
> Specifically, if you make an alias for status and call it from a
> subdirectory, git status chdirs into the true .git dir but then
> chdir's back to the wrong place in order to run the lstats for status.
>  The result is that git status thinks all files have disappeared.
>
> Here's a self-contained test script:
>
>    #!/bin/bash
>    set -x
>
>    # make a simple repository
>    mkdir repo
>    cd repo
>    git init
>    mkdir a
>    echo content > a/b
>    git add a/b
>    git commit -m "a commit"
>
>    # replace the gitdir with a gitfile
>    mv .git ../repo.git
>    echo gitdir: `pwd`.git > .git
>
>    # normal git status works
>    cd a
>    git status
>
>    # an alias for git status fails
>    git config alias.st status
>    git st

I suspect that the $GIR_DIR and .git file works equally in this
aspect, so you should specify where is the workdir in .git/config with
respect the repository:

git config core.workdir `pwd`

HTH,
Santi