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Bug: git add with absolute path fails if repo root dir is a symlink

Subject: Bug: git add with absolute path fails if repo root dir is a symlink

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3 messages between Dec 27, 2010 and Dec 27, 2010.

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Alexander Gladysh· Dec 27, 2010, 06:25 UTC · lore

Hi, list.

Yet another issue with Git symlink handling.

I can't run git add with absolute path if the repository's root directory is a symlink.

Please see the transcript below for details.

Alexander.

$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 Codename: maverick

$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

$ git --version git version 1.7.3.4

$ mkdir myrepo && cd myrepo $ git init $ touch alpha $ git add alpha $ git commit -m "initial commit"

$ cd ../ $ ln -s myrepo mysymlink $ cd mysymlink $ git status $ touch beta

$ git add ~/tmp/git-test/mysymlink/beta fatal: '/home/agladysh/tmp/git-test/mysymlink/beta' is outside repository

$ cd ../myrepo/ $ git add ~/tmp/git-test/myrepo/beta $ git status # On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # new file: beta #

Alexander Gladysh· Dec 27, 2010, 07:23 UTC · re: Alexander Gladysh · lore

Re: Bug: git add with absolute path fails if repo root dir is a symlink

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:25, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't run git add with absolute path if the repository's root
> directory is a symlink.

Note that this issue is also triggered if *any* of the directories in path above of my repo are symlinks.

This is a show-stopper for my current workflow.

Is there a way to quickly workaround this somehow?

Alexander.

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon· Dec 27, 2010, 08:13 UTC · re: Alexander Gladysh · lore

Re: Bug: git add with absolute path fails if repo root dir is a symlink

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:23:12AM +0300, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

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> > I can't run git add with absolute path if the repository's root
> > directory is a symlink.
> 
> Note that this issue is also triggered if *any* of the directories in
> path above of my repo are symlinks.

When using absolute path names, git will compare the path given with the git work tree and any name that is referred through a symlink in that will trigger a mismatch.

> Is there a way to quickly workaround this somehow?

use relative paths (implemented below through an alias named "myadd") :

[alias]
        myadd = "!sh -c 'cd `dirname \"$1\"` && git add `basename \"$1\"`' -"

so in your workflow you would use "myadd" instead of "add" to convert your absolute paths (with symlinks) into relative paths

Carlo