Hi, On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 6:22 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, if we define setup() to behave this way when GIT_DIR is not > > defined and GIT_WORK_TREE is: > > > > (1) internally pretend as if GIT_DIR was specified to be the > > directory where the command was started from (iow, do getcwd() > > once upon startup); > > > > (2) chdir to GIT_WORK_TREE (which means "callers of setup() always > > run from the top of the work tree"); > > > > (3) set prefix to NULL; > > (1) is fine by me, even if it goes up to find a gitdir. But (3), no, > prefix should be set as relative path from worktree top directory to > user current directory, not NULL. If you expect "git <command> <filespec>" to work correctly from GIT_DIR, you will _have_ to set the prefix to NULL. Ciao, Dscho - 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
