Hi,
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> > +'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'::
> > + If set (to a colon delimited list of absolute directories), Git
> > + will refuse to look for the .git/ directory further when hitting
> > + one of those directories (otherwise it would traverse the parent
> > + directories until hitting the root directory).
>
> Hmm.
>
> Looking at the current implementation, this should be written as:
>
> If set to a colon delimited list of absolute directories,
> and the current directory is in or below one of them, then
> these are the top-most directories in which Git will look for
> a .git/ directory (otherwise it would traverse the parent
> directories until hitting the root directory).
According to the test case
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$CWD/X:$CWD/subdir" &&
export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES &&
(cd subdir && test_must_fail git rev-parse --git-dir)
this is not the case. If you have something like /bla/subdir and you are
in /bla/subdir, it will not look for .git/.
Ciao,
Dscho "who leaves it as an exercise to the reader to see why the code
does what it does"
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