When using the '-w $cvsdir' option to cvsexportcommit, it will chdir into $cvsdir before executing several other git commands. If $GIT_DIR is set to a relative path (e.g. '.'), the git commands executed by cvsexportcommit will naturally fail with "fatal: Not a git repository". Therefore, if $GIT_DIR is relative, prepend $PWD to $GIT_DIR before the chdir to $cvsdir. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- I'm working on an update hook script for automatically propagating commits to a CVS server. My script calls 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...'. However, the hooks infrastructure invokes the update hook script with the (bare, in my case) Git repo as $PWD and sets up GIT_DIR="." in the script's environment. For now, I work around this bug in my script by forcing $GIT_DIR to $PWD, but this really seems like a bug in cvsexportcommit. In my case, this bug can also be fixed by making sure the hook infrastructure set up an _absolute_ GIT_DIR for the update hook, something I'd consider more polite than the current GIT_DIR=".". Whether we want to fix this as well should be discussed. But the patch below is needed in any case, since cvsexportcommit may not only be called from hook scripts. Have fun! :) ...Johan git-cvsexportcommit.perl | 15 +++++++++------ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl index d2e50c3..fd4fbfb 100755 --- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl +++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl @@ -15,15 +15,18 @@ $opt_h && usage(); die "Need at least one commit identifier!" unless @ARGV; if ($opt_w) { + # Remember where GIT_DIR is before changing to CVS checkout unless ($ENV{GIT_DIR}) { - # Remember where our GIT_DIR is before changing to CVS checkout + # Oops no GIT_DIR set. Figure out for ourselves my $gd =`git-rev-parse --git-dir`; chomp($gd); - if ($gd eq '.git') { - my $wd = `pwd`; - chomp($wd); - $gd = $wd."/.git" ; - } + $ENV{GIT_DIR} = $gd; + } + unless ($ENV{GIT_DIR} =~ m[^/]) { + # GIT_DIR is relative. Prepend $PWD + my $wd = `pwd`; + chomp($wd); + my $gd = $wd."/".$ENV{GIT_DIR}; $ENV{GIT_DIR} = $gd; } -- 1.5.4.2.g41ac4 - 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