From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:04:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rehabilitate 'git index-pack' inside the object store
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0810220704o7a0ed177u48dcada9391ec626@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810211856090.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

On 10/22/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>  So I propose this change in semantics:
>
>  - setup_git_directory_gently(): rename to discover_git_directory(),
>   and avoid any chdir() at all.
>  - setup_git_directory(): keep the semantics that it chdir()s to the
>   worktree, or to the git directory for bare repositories.
>
>  Using _gently() even for RUN_SETUP builtins should solve the long standing
>  pager problem, too.

One more thing: "git foo -h" with RUN_SETUP won't run if repository is
not found. Maybe just drop RUN_SETUP and let subcommands call
setup_git_directory()
-- 
Duy