From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:06:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0911041406tce0956ai2ad3fe6cfbdc546d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0911041621400.14365@iabervon.org>

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?

> 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.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier