git-sh-setup.sh: make GIT_DIR absolute

Quite a few of the scripts are rather careless about using GIT_DIR
while changing directories.

Some try their hands (with different likelihood of success) in making
GIT_DIR absolute.

This patch lets git-sh-setup.sh cater for absolute directories (in a
way that should work reliably also with non-Unix path names) and
removes the respective kludges in git-filter-branch.sh and
git-instaweb.sh.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index 8cbd153b62..185c5c6c95 100755
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ then
 		exit $exit
 	}
 else
-	GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir) || exit
+	GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir) || {
+	    exit=$?
+	    echo >&2 "Failed to find a valid git directory."
+	    exit $exit
+	}
 fi
+
+test -n "$GIT_DIR" && GIT_DIR=$(cd "$GIT_DIR" && pwd) || {
+    echo >&2 "Unable to determine absolute path of git directory"
+    exit 1
+}
+
 : ${GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY="$GIT_DIR/objects"}