Re: Possible bug in 1.6.6 with reset --hard and $GIT_WORK_TREE

[Fyn Fynn <fynfynn@gmail.com>]

I went over the 952dfc6 patch, and it seems like it was designed to
fix a specific bug - the one demonstrated by Nanako Shiraishi above.

Nowhere there do I see an intention to prevent the action described in
the original post. And even if there was such intention, it should
have been made explicit by providing a proper error message: the
current one simply ignores the fact that we provided GIT_WORK_TREE,
and is thus incorrect since the work tree can be found.

Moreover, if there is an intention to prevent resetting from outside
the worktree (why?), then probably "checkout -f" should be limited as
well.

But it is more likely that the breaking of the original action between
1.6.4 and 1.6.6 came about as an untended consequence of 952dfc6,
which oversimplified by assuming that the worktree can only be found
if we're inside it, ignoring the possibility that GIT_WORK_TREE was
provided.

Thus, the current state should be considered a bug.

--

Fynn

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/09, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
>> Quoting Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>>
>>  > On 12/29/09, Fyn Fynn <fynfynn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >> The exact same git reset command that works in 1.6.4, fails to work
>>  >>  under 1.6.6:
>>  >>
>>  >>  $ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/rawdata/ GIT_DIR=$HOME/rawdata/.git
>>  >>  /usr/local/git-1.6.6/bin/git reset --hard
>>  >>  fatal: hard reset requires a work tree
>>  >>  $ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/rawdata/ GIT_DIR=$HOME/rawdata/.git
>>  >>  /usr/local/git-1.6.4/bin/git reset --hard
>>  >>  HEAD is now at 77ec73f...
>>  >>
>>  >>  What gives?
>>  >
>>  > A recent patch by Jeff (952dfc6 (reset: improve worktree safety valves
>>  > - 2009-12-04)) makes sure that "git reset --hard" will not work
>>  > outside worktree (which is right).
>>
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't understand why it is *right*. Isn't 'git reset --hard' supposed to make all the files in the working tree match the HEAD, no matter where you start from?
>
> It is generally "right" to work from inside worktree, the way Git
> worked before GIT_WORK_TREE came. In case of "git reset --hard", yes
> it'd be best if Git could just go to worktree and reset it. I forgot
> that "git reset --hard" does not take pathspec. The situation may be a
> bit more complicated with "git status" (which also handles worktree as
> a whole) because you may need to represent the filename output to be
> relative to current working directory, not the GIT_WORK_TREE. Using
> GIT_WORK_TREE from outside worktree is imo stretching git to its
> limits.
> --
> Duy
>