Your mail did not make it to the list, therefore I quote the full mail. Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthias Lederhofer wrote: > > cd_to_toplevel takes the output of git rev-parse --show-cdup and feeds > > it to cd. The problem is that cd uses PWD to do what the user means > > when saying cd .., i.e. it goes to /foo when in /foo/bar even though > > /foo/bar might be a symlink. Example: > > > > (in an existing git repository) > > /tmp/foo$ mkdir -p a/b > > /tmp/foo$ ln -s a/b c > > /tmp/foo$ cd c > > /tmp/foo/c$ git fetch . master:master > > git-fetch: line 108: /FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied > > > > Is there any way to tell cd to ignore $PWD? > cd -P ... does the trick. IIRC it's in SUSv3, but once more, Solaris > /bin/sh doesn't know about that option: > > login@~ > uname -a > SunOS login 5.10 Generic_125100-10 sun4u sparc > > login@~ > /bin/sh > > $ mkdir /tmp/foo; cd /tmp/foo > > $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ > > $ mkdir -p a/b; ln -s a/b c; cd c > > $ git rev-parse --show-cdup > ../../ > > $ cd -P ../../ > -P: does not exist Do we care about that shell? There was another thread about shell script cleanup where the default sun /bin/sh doesn't support some other features from the git shell scripts too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
