Re: quick bare clones taking longer?

From: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2007, 20:52 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20070510T224750-851@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4642DE52.F9F0A5B2@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt <at> eudaptics.com> writes:

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> 
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > 
> > Junio C Hamano <junkio <at> cox.net> writes:
> > 
> > >  get_repo_base() {
> > > -     (cd "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2> /dev/null
> > > +     (
> > > +             cd "`/bin/pwd`" &&
> > > +             cd "$1" &&
> > > +             (
> > > +                     cd .git
> > > +                     pwd
> > > +             )
> > > +     ) 2>/dev/null
> > >  }
> > 
> > Will this work on windows?
> 
> Yes. As does the alternative that uses cd -P. MinGW uses bash (3.1
> here).

In fact, all POSIX shells should support `cd -P' according to the spec, so it should probably just be used directly instead of hoping that /bin/pwd exists.

(cd -P "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2>/dev/null

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cd.html

-- Dan