Re: git-new-workdir not working right?

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 15, 2009, 12:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904151310140.11773@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <81bfc67a0904150331t6787fcfbjd391013a8235ece0@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Caleb Cushing wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Julian Phillips
> <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>> Works fine for me.  Are you sure you didn't have a typo in your original
>> git-new-workdir invocation?  If so, could you supply:
>>
>>  1) the complete output of running git-new-workdir
>>  2) the output of "git rev-parse --git-dir" run in path/to/repo/.git
>>
>> Also, you shouldn't need to supply the .git, so "git new-workdir
>> path/to/repo newworkdirname" should also work, have you tried that?
>>
>
> git-new-workdir portage/ test
> /home/port/portdev/.bin/git-new-workdir: line 58: cd:
> /home/port/portdev/tree/portage
> .git: No such file or directory
> /home/port/portdev/tree/test
> cp: cannot stat `/home/port/portdev/tree/HEAD': No such file or directory
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>
> git-new-workdir portage/.git/ test
> /home/port/portdev/.bin/git-new-workdir: line 58: cd:
> /home/port/portdev/tree/portage/.git
> .: No such file or directory
> /home/port/portdev/tree/test
> cp: cannot stat `/home/port/portdev/tree/HEAD': No such file or directory
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>
> git rev-parse --git-dir portage/
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>
> cd portage/
> /home/port/portdev/tree/portage
> slave-iv portage $ git rev-parse --git-dir .
> .git
> .
>
> git-new-workdir . ../test/ << seems to work too.
>

*sighs* oh yes, that old chestnut ...

You're exporting CDPATH, this variable shouldn't be exported. This is likely to cause random shell scripts to break.

Alternatively, Putting "unset CDPATH" at the beginning of git-new-workdir should fix it.

This has come up a number of times in the past on the git list. See, for example:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52177/focus=52268

-- 
Julian

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