SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 09:15:47AM +0000, Sheikh hamza via GitGitGadget wrote: >> From: sheikh hamza <sheikhhamza012@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> according to the open issue #486 > > What issue #486? Where? The Git project doesn't use issues. > >> the git bisect >> command should be able to run from inside any >> subdirectory > > Why should 'git bisect' be able to run from inside any subdirectory > (of the working tree, I presume)? > > In particular, what happens, if someone starts 'git bisect' from > within 'subdir/', and 'git bisect' then checks out an old commit, > where said 'subdir/' didn't exist? What happens, if the user runs > 'git bisect run ./script' from within 'subdir/', and that 'subdir/' > doesn't exist in that old commit? What happens, if 'subdir' does > exists in that old commit, but it's a file, not a directory? What > happens, if all this is on Windows? Hmm, I am of two minds. Most certainly, the bisection would break when the directory cannot be removed, and if it can be, then $pwd would become in a weird state and the iteration with the bisect machinery (be it interactive test before saying "bisect good/bad", or the command execution during "bisect run") would fail in a strange and unpredictable ways. So from that perspective, it does make sense to forbid running "git bisect" from a subdirectory, and we should probably do so on the same principle for "git checkout", "git pull" and many other things. But even then, it would not probably be foolproof. Another process that the end-user is not even aware of its execution (e.g. virus scanners?) may have a file open in the subdirectory on a filesystem that does not allow directories to be removed while there is an open file descriptor on a file it contains, and would cause the command to fail in a similar way. So it probably is being too draconian to forbid these commands (not just "git bisect") from being run in a subdirectory for no good reason (i.e. being strict is not helping us much). What would help is to make sure we fail in an understandable way (i.e. "cannot remove directory /foo/bar/boz, so checkout of version v1.2.3 failed" is clearly conveyed to the end user, which we may be already doing in which case that is wonderful). >> and in the same disscusion "dscho" >> gave the directions and those directions lead me >> the fix of adding SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Yes on L#34 >> before sourcing git-sh-setup that made it work as >> in git-sh-setup there was a check on SUBDIRECTORY_OK >> that prevents it to run in sub directories if it is not >> set to "ok" as this file was also sourced in other commands >> that are required to only run from root one of such scripts >> is git-filter-branch > > Please don't indent the commit message and use punctuation to make it > more readable. This is a good point.
