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From: Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to access working tree from .git dir?
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:02:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189213361.15140.13.camel@beauty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr6la11q9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 16:42 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 15:12 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Josh England <jjengla@comcast.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> > OK. Fair enough.  Maybe it would be good to note in git-sh-setup.sh that
> >> > many of the supplied functions will not work when called from within
> >> > $GIT_DIR.
> >> 
> >> Sorry, "supplied functions"?  Care to clarify with a patch?
> >
> > I guess really just the cd_to_topdir() function.  It will silently fail
> > when run from within $GIT_DIR.
> 
> Ah, I see what you meant.
> 
> I think you probably are supposed to check with is_bare_repository
> or something before calling that, as asking to cd to toplevel
> implies you know there is such a thing as toplevel ;-)

That's fine.  I guess using `$GIT_DIR/../` as you mentioned before will
just have to work.

-JE

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-08  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-06 23:20 how to access working tree from .git dir? Josh England
2007-09-07 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 21:27   ` Josh England
2007-09-07 21:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 22:11       ` Josh England
2007-09-07 22:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 22:34           ` Josh England
2007-09-07 23:42             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-08  1:02               ` Josh England [this message]

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