# [PATCH 2/4] Check repository format version in enter_repo().

1 messages from 2005-11-26 to 2005-11-26. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2677

## Junio C Hamano, 2005-11-26 01:15

Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Check repository format version in enter_repo().
Message-ID: <7vd5kogqg0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vd5kogqg0.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

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After daemon, upload-pack and receive-pack find out where the
git directory is and chdir() there, make sure that repository is
in a format we understand, after putenv("GIT_DIR=.") so that it
knows to pick up the configuration file from there.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

---

 path.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

applies-to: 936ce54dedc7c7cfcf8f83a742325b3329eb95a1
ed2f604235d7f400ee5fa01a591158cdabd65197
diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index 4d88947..2c077c0 100644
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ char *enter_repo(char *path, int strict)
 	if(access("objects", X_OK) == 0 && access("refs", X_OK) == 0 &&
 	   validate_symref("HEAD") == 0) {
 		putenv("GIT_DIR=.");
+		check_repository_format();
 		return current_dir();
 	}
 
---
0.99.9.GIT

```