Re: [PATCH 1/2] fsmonitor: Read from getcwd(), not the PWD environment variable

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Alex Vandiver <alexmv@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

This comment is only so that I do not keep editing them while queuing..

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fsmonitor: Read from getcwd(), not the PWD environment variable

Downcase "Read" (or any word after "<area>: " on the commit title).

> Though the process has chdir'd to the root of the working tree, the
> PWD environment variable is only guaranteed to be updated accordingly
> if a shell is involved -- which is not guaranteed to be the case.
> That is, if `/usr/bin/perl` is a binary, $ENV{PWD} is unchanged from
> whatever spawned `git` -- if `/usr/bin/perl` is a trivial shell
> wrapper to the real `perl`, `$ENV{PWD}` will have been updated to the
> root of the working copy.
>
> Update to read from the Cwd module using the `getcwd` syscall, not the
> PWD environment variable.  The Cygwin case is left unchanged, as it
> necessarily _does_ go through a shell.

Interesting observation.  Why didn't anybody else notice it, I
wonder?

Thanks, will queue.

> Signed-off-by: Alex Vandiver <alexmv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman                 | 3 ++-
>  templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman b/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman
> index a3e30bf54..5fe72cefa 100755
> --- a/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman
> +++ b/t/t7519/fsmonitor-watchman
> @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ if ($system =~ m/^MSYS_NT/ || $system =~ m/^MINGW/) {
>  	$git_work_tree =~ s/[\r\n]+//g;
>  	$git_work_tree =~ s,\\,/,g;
>  } else {
> -	$git_work_tree = $ENV{'PWD'};
> +	require Cwd;
> +	$git_work_tree = Cwd::cwd();
>  }
>  
>  my $retry = 1;
> diff --git a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
> index 9a082f278..ba6d88c5f 100755
> --- a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
> +++ b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
> @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ if ($system =~ m/^MSYS_NT/ || $system =~ m/^MINGW/) {
>  	$git_work_tree =~ s/[\r\n]+//g;
>  	$git_work_tree =~ s,\\,/,g;
>  } else {
> -	$git_work_tree = $ENV{'PWD'};
> +	require Cwd;
> +	$git_work_tree = Cwd::cwd();
>  }
>  
>  my $retry = 1;



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