From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:04:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move git send-email cover letter temporary file to $GIT_DIR
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20712212304s598d344dg41d03f58084d794e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcib2phi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Dec 22, 2007 5:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Dec 22, 2007 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Don't you have $repo (an instance of Git) at that point?  You
> >> should be able to ask repo_path() about it, shouldn't you?
> >
> > Isn't git-send-email still useful outside a Git repo?
>
> Then why does it run "rev-parse --git-dir"?

I'm suggesting that it should still function just fine without being
inside a repo, so it should adequately handle "rev-parse --git-dir"
returning 128.


Dave.