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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>
Subject: Re: reversion in GIT_COMMON_DIR refs path
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 18:11:21 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C4EZnB2PkJw5t7c007vRmb8DDKk41p2azvjOnJNO0n7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170519143727.edi4ni7v5pywm7dk@kitenet.net>

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>> Bisecting this test suite failure
>> https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex_in_nixpkgs_fails_with_git-2.13.0/
>> I landed on commit f57f37e2e1bf11ab4cdfd221ad47e961ba9353a0 to git.
>>
>> It seems that changed resolving refs paths when GIT_DIR and GIT_COMMON_DIR
>> are both set. While before refs were looked for in GIT_COMMON_DIR,
>> now they're not.
>
> In case there's any doubt about whether this is a reversion or an
> intentional change, see gitrepository-layout(5):
>
>        refs
>            References are stored in subdirectories of this directory. The git
>            prune command knows to preserve objects reachable from refs found
>            in this directory and its subdirectories. This directory is ignored
>            if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/refs" will be used
>            instead.
>
> So the documented behavior is broken.

It's a gray area. When I wrote that I think I forgot about
per-worktree refs (refs/bisect/*) so "This directory is ignored" is
not completely true. The final line (probably won't help you much) is
"per-repo refs must be read from $GIT_COMMON_DIR/refs, per-worktree
from $GIT_DIR". The fact that we looked per-repo (like master) in
$GIT_DIR is probably an unwanted side effect.
-- 
Duy

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-22 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-16 17:10 reversion in GIT_COMMON_DIR refs path Joey Hess
2017-05-16 17:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-16 17:59   ` Joey Hess
2017-05-16 20:37     ` [PATCH] tests: add an optional test to test git-annex Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-16 22:10       ` Joey Hess
2017-05-17  2:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-17  6:47         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-17 10:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-17 19:33             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-17 23:03               ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-17 23:59                 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-17 23:56             ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-19 14:37 ` reversion in GIT_COMMON_DIR refs path Joey Hess
2017-05-22 11:11   ` Duy Nguyen [this message]

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