From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 13:18:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160517171836.GA12183@kitenet.net> (raw)
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joey@darkstar:/tmp>git init test
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/
joey@darkstar:/tmp>cd test
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test>mkdir sub
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test>cd sub
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test/sub>GIT_INDEX_FILE=../.git/otherindex git write-tree
fatal: Unable to create '/tmp/test/../.git/otherindex.lock': No such file or directory
Appears to be a bug in git. Seems that it's assuming GIT_INDEX_FILE is
relative to the top of the worktree and not to the CWD.
Workaround: Use absolute path to the index file.
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test/sub>GIT_INDEX_FILE=`pwd`/../.git/otherindex git write-tree
4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
joey@darkstar:/tmp/test/sub>ls ../.git/otherindex
../.git/otherindex
git version 2.8.1
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next reply other threads:[~2016-05-17 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-17 17:18 Joey Hess [this message]
2016-05-17 17:34 ` GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir Junio C Hamano
2016-05-17 18:26 ` Joey Hess
2016-05-22 19:04 ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 16:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-23 17:29 ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-23 18:52 ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
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