Re: [PATCH] Remove .git auto detection from setup_git_env()

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On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:47:48PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> When GIT_DIR environment variable is not specified, .git will be
> searched if a repository is needed. Currently this can be done in two
> places: setup_git_directory_gently() and setup_git_env().
> 
> The one in setup_git_env() is no longer correct and should IMHO have
> been removed since the introduction of setup_git_directory_gently() in
> d288a70. Having two ways of auto detection may lead to obscure errors
> because .git may be misdetected by setup_git_env(),
> automatically called via git_path(), which is all over the place.
> 
> This patch makes setup_git_env() die if GIT_DIR is not explictly
> set. That's setup_git_directory_gently()'s job. If you ever want to
> touch things inside $GIT_DIR, you should have already called
> setup_git_directory_gently().
> 
> This patch breaks commands (in a good way) and obviously not for
> mainline. I still have to go through "make test" to see how many are
> impacted. But I think this is a good change. Am I missing something?

It has been a while since I looked at this code, but I think this is a
good direction forward. I remember trying something like this and
getting discouraged at all of the ensuing breakage. So if you can track
down all of the fallouts and fix them, I think we will be better off in
the long run.

-Peff
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