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Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory

From
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Nov 4, 2009, 22:27 UTC
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> Heya,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 22:35, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> > I thought we cd into the repository in the middle of clone somewhere,
> > before running stuff.
> 
> It does, but not soon enough, that is, not before I needed it in my helper.
> 
> > In any case, I think it would be good to have
> > something like that, but I think maybe we should tell it where it can put
> > its status files, rather than telling it where the .git dir is.
> 
> Yes, that would probably be a good idea, .git/info/remote-<vcs>/<alias> perhaps?

Seems reasonable to me, unless we make it .git/info/remote-<vcs>, and tell helper authors to deal with having different imports not conflict with each other.

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> > It would
> > also be nice if this is the absolute path that gfi will base a relative
> > path for the "marks" options on when importing.
> 
> The marks option has been dumped in favor of 'feature import-marks='
> and 'feature export-marks=' which will be in the reroll of
> sr/gfi-options.

Right, but the values of those have to be paths, and I think they should be relative paths, relative to the helper's state directory.

	-Daniel
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Message 26 of 36 in “Reroll of the remote-vcs-helper series”
  1. 00/13 Reroll of the remote-vcs-helper seriesSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  2. 01/13 Fix memory leak in helper method for disconnectSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  3. 02/13 Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urlsSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  4. 03/13 Use a function to determine whether a remote is validSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  5. 04/13 Allow fetch to modify refsSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  6. 05/13 Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcsSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  7. 06/13 Allow specifying the remote helper in the urlSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  8. 07/13 Add support for "import" helper commandSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  9. 08/13 Write local refs written by the "import" helper command only onceSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  10. 09/13 Honour the refspec when updating refs after importSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  11. Daniel BarkalowNov 4, 2009
  12. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2009
  13. Daniel BarkalowNov 4, 2009
  14. Sverre RabbelierNov 5, 2009
  15. Daniel BarkalowNov 5, 2009
  16. Daniel BarkalowNov 5, 2009
  17. Sverre RabbelierNov 5, 2009
  18. Daniel BarkalowNov 6, 2009
  19. Sverre RabbelierNov 6, 2009
  20. Daniel BarkalowNov 6, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2009
  22. 10/13 Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchangedSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  23. 11/13 Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directorySverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  24. Daniel BarkalowNov 4, 2009
  25. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2009
  26. Daniel BarkalowNov 4, 2009
  27. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2009
  28. Daniel BarkalowNov 4, 2009
  29. Sverre RabbelierNov 4, 2009
  30. Daniel BarkalowNov 4, 2009
  31. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2009
  32. Sverre RabbelierNov 5, 2009
  33. 12/13 Basic build infrastructure for Python scriptsSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  34. 13/13 Add Python support library for remote helpersSverre Rabbelier, Nov 4, 2009
  35. Johan HerlandNov 5, 2009
  36. Sverre RabbelierNov 6, 2009

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