Re: [BUG] git_path() returns relative paths

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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> 044bbbc (Make git_dir a path relative to work_tree in
>> setup_work_tree() - 2008-06-19)
>
> Okay, so it does seem to be a significant optimization.  Frankly,
> e02ca72 only improves the relative_path() algorithm, and it's not
> really doing anything Wrong: it's has just uncovered a previously
> undiscovered bug.
>
> So far, we know that the line:
>
>   s->fp = fopen(git_path(commit_editmsg), "w");
>
> in commit.c:prepare_to_commit() isn't failing; so, the work_tree and
> git_dir do seem to be set correctly. The problem seems to be in
> launch_editor().  What's worse? Everything works just fine when I have
> a symbolic link to a directory in a normal repository; I still can't
> figure out what submodules have to do with any of this.
>
> What the hell is going on?!

I was involved with this code (the gitdir setup code, not submodule)
and am interested to know what's going on too. Could you produce a
small script to reproduce it?
-- 
Duy
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