On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 17:40 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > no, no, this is for the scenario other way around: you have a normal > subdirectory in the working tree, and point a symlink _at_ it from > $somewhere_else. Then you try to work in $somewhere_else/symlink. Yes correct. We have a number of different repositories like so: banana.git/apps banana.git/lib orange.git/config kiwi.git/refdata and its convenient for many of our existing apps to be able to symlink them all together into a common tree joined/apps -> banana.git/apps joined/lib -> banana.git/lib joined/config -> orange.git/config joined/refdata -> kiwi.git/refdata this way for instance we can swap bits around easily on the fly and say, restart a webserver or whatever. Currently we can do this and all our other stuff works, and you can /mostly/ work with git from the "joined" tree, with the exception of git pull --rebase and apparently anything else that relies on --show-cdup > > > This patch changes --show-cdup to always show absolute workdir path > > > instead. I think this should hopefully cause no compatibility problems; > > > the testsuite is passing fine, at least. > > > > See the thread where I proposed a change like this, back with the infamous > > worktree desaster, and Junio NACKed; or the thread where Linus rightfully > > insists that git_dir should be relative if possible, for performance > > reasons. > > I see, <7vk5sly3h9.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. But noone was aware > of this possible user case. Performance reasons sound reasonable, though > I'm not really sure if for cdup in particular this ever matters. Would it be so bad to detect if the show-cdup actually resolves to the right place, and if it doesnt go absolute? > > P.S.: Either way, there is a possible workaround to tell git about the > working directory manually using git --work-tree=... that I missed to > mention on IRC, Yves. Hmm, am i using it wrong then? [dmq@somewhere apps]$ git-rev-parse --git-dir /home/dmq/git_tree/main/.git [dmq@somewhere apps]$ git --work-tree="$(git-rev-parse --git-dir)" pull --rebase /usr/bin/git-sh-setup: line 139: cd: .git: No such file or directory Unable to determine absolute path of git directory cheers, yves ps: not on list, please cc me on replies (sorry for the hassle) -- 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
