On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 09:02:06PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:19 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 07:16:54PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > > Is there > > > any existing code in Git for doing the relative fixups you mention for > > > other Git environment variables? > > > > You can assign local_repo_env to child_process.env (or push it > > individually to env_array if you have to mix with other variables). See > > git_connect() for an example. > > I wasn't aware of 'local_repo_env', but can see how it could be > helpful as a basis for building machinery to adjust relative paths > contained in those environment variables prior to a chdir(). My > original question was if such machinery already exists, but I'm > guessing from your response that it doesn't. Oh, I see. I totally missed that you said "relative fixups" and not "clearing". :) There's the chdir_notify system. Any variables which need updating need to register themselves, and then the chdir in the worktree code needs to be done with chdir_notify(). See chdir-notify.h for details. -Peff
