Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:39:02PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: >> It should not be necessary to re-specify --separate-git-dir when re-initialising a git repo. >> >> $ git init --separate-git-dir ../repo >> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/infinity0/tmp/repo/ >> >> $ git init >> /home/infinity0/tmp/wtree/.git/refs: Not a directory >> 1 > > This patch seems to work. Lightly tested. > > -- 8< -- > diff --git a/builtin/init-db.c b/builtin/init-db.c > index 78aa387..d0e5b2e 100644 > --- a/builtin/init-db.c > +++ b/builtin/init-db.c > @@ -192,6 +192,15 @@ static int create_default_files(const char *template_path) > die(_("insane git directory %s"), git_dir); > memcpy(path, git_dir, len); > > + if (!lstat(path, &st1) && S_ISREG(st1.st_mode)) { > + git_dir = read_gitfile(git_dir); > + len = strlen(git_dir); > + if (len > sizeof(path)-50) > + die(_("insane git directory %s"), git_dir); > + set_git_dir(git_dir); This repetition from the pre-context of the patch makes me wonder if it may be a better solution to make sure we have already resolved the gitfile way before we get here, so that get_git_dir() gives the real location. The codepaths in init and clone are both special in that they may be dealing with a new repository and because of that, they may need to call set_git_dir() themselves, but in the codeflow for normal (read: those who deal with an existing repositories) programs, discovery of the real ".git" directory is done by environment.c::get_git_dir(), which to calls setup_git_env(), which in turn read_gitfile()'s on ".git" when using the default ".git", like so: static void setup_git_env(void) { git_dir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT); git_dir = git_dir ? xstrdup(git_dir) : NULL; if (!git_dir) { git_dir = read_gitfile(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT); git_dir = git_dir ? xstrdup(git_dir) : NULL; } if (!git_dir) git_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT; And after this sequence, git_object_dir and git_index_file are computed off of git_dir, unless they are specified to use an alternate location via environment variables. I wonder if the last "use DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT" (which is ".git") should also do the read_gitfile() thing, perhaps like this (totally untested): environment.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c index 5398c36..944e10e 100644 --- a/environment.c +++ b/environment.c @@ -123,14 +123,16 @@ static char *expand_namespace(const char *raw_namespace) static void setup_git_env(void) { + const char *gitfile; + git_dir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT); - git_dir = git_dir ? xstrdup(git_dir) : NULL; - if (!git_dir) { - git_dir = read_gitfile(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT); - git_dir = git_dir ? xstrdup(git_dir) : NULL; - } if (!git_dir) git_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT; + gitfile = read_gitfile(git_dir); + if (!gitfile) + git_dir = xstrdup(git_dir); + else + git_dir = gitfile; git_object_dir = getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT); if (!git_object_dir) { git_object_dir = xmalloc(strlen(git_dir) + 9); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html