On October 30, 2017 5:46:36 AM PDT, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi Phillip,
>
>On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Phillip Wood wrote:
>
>> On 30/10/17 06:26, Jacob Keller wrote:
>> > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> >> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >>
>> >>> I am pretty confident we can fix it....
>> >>
>> >> I am sure we can eventually, but 3 hours is not enough soak time.
>> >>
>> >> I am inclined to leave the fix for 2.15.1/2.16.0 instead of
>delaying
>> >> the release by 10 more days.
>> >
>> > That's fair. I'm not even sure it was introduced since the last
>> > release (I tried 2.12, but not 2.13 or 2.14 manually). Thus, it
>likely
>> > wasn't noticed for at least a release, meaning it's less important
>(to
>> > me at least) that we provide a fix immediately, since it went
>> > unnoticed this long, likely that means few people will be impacted.
>>
>> It is in 2.14.3, I haven't bisected but I suspect it was introduced
>by
>> 311af5266b sequencer (rebase -i): implement the 'exec' command
>>
>> Running
>> git rebase -x'perl -e '\''$,=$\="\n"; print grep { /^GIT_/ } sort
>keys
>> %ENV'\' @
>> Shows that the rebase--helper version also sets GIT_PREFIX as well as
>> GIT_DIR, I suspect the difference is coming from differences in the
>> setup for builtin commands vs external commands. The shell version
>and
>> the rebase--helper version set GIT_CHERRY_PICK_HELP, GIT_EDITOR,
>> GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME, GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
>
>Indeed, when you look at git_dir_init in git-sh-setup, you will see
>that
>Unix shell scripts explicitly get their GIT_DIR turned into an absolute
>path.
>
>So my suggested patch is wrong, and it should be more along the lines
>of
>
> struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> const char *child_env[] = { NULL, NULL };
>
> strbuf_addf(&buf, "GIT_DIR=%s", absolute_path(get_git_dir()));
> child_env[0] = buf.buf;
>
> ...
>
> strbuf_release(&buf);
>
>Jake, can I still take you up on taking it from here?
>
>Ciao,
>Dscho
Yes, I will clean this up and submit something tomorrow once I get to a computer. I didn't end up having time to work on Git today.
Thanks,
Jake
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