From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:40:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Preserve cwd in setup_git_directory()
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0807240540i400fe0d1s7ea8efe72203471d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807241324040.8986@racer>

On 7/24/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
>  > When GIT_DIR is not set, cwd is used to determine where .git is. If
>  > core.worktree is set, setup_git_directory() needs to jump back to the
>  > original cwd in order to calculate worktree, this leads to incorrect
>  > .git location later in setup_work_tree().
>
>
> I do not understand.  core.worktree is either absolute, in which case
>  there is no problem.  Or it is relative to where the config lives, no?

The problem is GIT_DIR is not absolute in this case. So cwd must stay
where git dir is until it is absolute-ized by setup_work_tree().

-- 
Duy