On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 6:48 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hultqvist <hultqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Considering that the gitdir could be located on a different drive than > > the workdir wouldn't it make more sense to create the temporary files > > in a subdirectory inside the gitdir rather tan in the workdir? > > I do not think we intend to create temporary files, whose final > destination is somewhere under $GIT_DIR/, in any working tree; > rather, I think we try to create them inside $GIT_DIR (or possibly > if the destination is a file in a subdirectory of $GIT_DIR, then in > the same subdirectory). What you are seeing definitely smells like > a bug in the worktree code, perhaps getting confused by the fact > that the full path to these places look "unusual" by starting with a > single alphabet followed by a colon (IOW, this may manifest only in > Windows port). I agree. Auditing the setup code did not reveal anything though. Our code should recognize these unusual Windows paths as absolute and while I spotted an incorrect use of '/' (instead of is_dir_sep) it does not explain the problem here. Hultqvist, if you set environment variable GIT_TRACE_SETUP to 1 and run "git status" in G:\Test1, what does it say? -- Duy
