Hi, On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Rémi Rampin <remirampin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > This bug report concerns git-gui. Apologies if this is not the right > mailing-list. > > By submodule I mean a repository for which .git is not a regular Git > directory, but rather a "gitdir: ..." file. > While running "git gui" from such a directory will work fine, trying > to open it from the choose_repository window will fail with "Not a Git > repository". This is because of the simplistic implementation of proc > _is_git in lib/choose_repository.tcl. > > I suggest fixing that function, or using Git directly to perform that > check, for instance checking "git rev-parse --show-toplevel". I'd > attempt a patch but my tcl-fu is weak. > I would have thought the following would work --- 8< --- Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: use git rev-parse to validate paths The current _is_git function to validate a path as a git repository does not handle a gitfiles which have been used for submodules for some time. Instead of using a custom function let's just ask git rev-parse. Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/choose_repository.tcl | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/choose_repository.tcl b/lib/choose_repository.tcl index 92d6022..944ab50 100644 --- a/lib/choose_repository.tcl +++ b/lib/choose_repository.tcl @@ -339,19 +339,12 @@ method _git_init {} { } proc _is_git {path} { - if {[file exists [file join $path HEAD]] - && [file exists [file join $path objects]] - && [file exists [file join $path config]]} { + puts $path + if {[catch {exec git rev-parse --resolve-git-dir $path}]} { + return 0 + } else { return 1 } - if {[is_Cygwin]} { - if {[file exists [file join $path HEAD]] - && [file exists [file join $path objects.lnk]] - && [file exists [file join $path config.lnk]]} { - return 1 - } - } - return 0 } proc _objdir {path} { -- 2.3.0.rc2 --- >8 --- But it actually looks like git rev-parse --resolve-git-dir $path needs to be run inside a git repository _any_ git repository, which seems a bit backwards to me. $ cd $ git rev-parse --resolve-git-dir ~/src/git/.git fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). $ cd ~/src/git $ git rev-parse --resolve-git-dir ~/src/git-gui/.git /home/chrisp/src/git-gui/.git So one potential fix git a gui-gui bug, one new(?) bug in git rev-parse. -- 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