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Re: [RFC PATCH] git-sh-setup: Use "cd" option, not /bin/pwd, for symlinked work tree

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 7, 2009, 12:25 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0902071324230.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Marcel M. Cary wrote:
> While the "-P" option may be slightly less commonly supported than
> /bin/pwd,

Does this not suggest that your patch should at least fall back to using /bin/pwd when it was detected that "cd -P" does not work?

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 23 of 27 in “fixing git pull from symlinked directory”
  1. 0/2 fixing git pull from symlinked directoryMarcel M. Cary, Nov 15, 2008
  2. 1/2 Add failing test for "git pull" in symlinked directoryMarcel M. Cary, Nov 15, 2008
  3. 2/2 Support shell scripts that run from symlinks into a git working dirMarcel M. Cary, Nov 15, 2008
  4. rev-parse: Fix shell scripts whose cwd is a symlink into a git work-dirMarcel M. Cary, Nov 22, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 22, 2008
  6. Andreas EricssonNov 23, 2008
  7. Marcel M. CaryNov 25, 2008
  8. Andreas EricssonNov 25, 2008
  9. Marcel M. CaryNov 25, 2008
  10. Johannes SixtNov 25, 2008
  11. Marcel M. CaryNov 25, 2008
  12. Johannes SixtNov 25, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 25, 2008
  14. git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink into a git work-dirMarcel M. Cary, Dec 3, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2008
  16. git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink into a git work-dirMarcel M. Cary, Dec 10, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2008
  18. git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink into a git work-dirMarcel M. Cary, Dec 13, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2008
  20. git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink into a git work-dirMarcel M. Cary, Dec 15, 2008
  21. Marcel M. CaryDec 15, 2008
  22. git-sh-setup: Use "cd" option, not /bin/pwd, for symlinked work treeMarcel M. Cary, Feb 7, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2009
  24. Marcel M. CaryFeb 8, 2009
  25. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2009
  26. Marcel M. CaryFeb 11, 2009
  27. Jeff KingFeb 11, 2009

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