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authorLibravatar Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>2017-02-17 17:59:06 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-02-17 10:21:54 -0800
commit098aa867626ef2444ef14a92b428a6ca26d83e60 (patch)
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parentrev-parse tests: add tests executed from a subdirectory (diff)
downloadtgif-098aa867626ef2444ef14a92b428a6ca26d83e60.tar.xz
rev-parse: fix several options when running in a subdirectory
In addition to making git_path() aware of certain file names that need to be handled differently e.g. when running in worktrees, the commit 557bd833bb (git_path(): be aware of file relocation in $GIT_DIR, 2014-11-30) also snuck in a new option for `git rev-parse`: `--git-path`. On the face of it, there is no obvious bug in that commit's diff: it faithfully calls git_path() on the argument and prints it out, i.e. `git rev-parse --git-path <filename>` has the same precise behavior as calling `git_path("<filename>")` in C. The problem lies deeper, much deeper. In hindsight (which is always unfair), implementing the .git/ directory discovery in `setup_git_directory()` by changing the working directory may have allowed us to avoid passing around a struct that contains information about the current repository, but it bought us many, many problems. In this case, when being called in a subdirectory, `git rev-parse` changes the working directory to the top-level directory before calling `git_path()`. In the new working directory, the result is correct. But in the working directory of the calling script, it is incorrect. Example: when calling `git rev-parse --git-path HEAD` in, say, the Documentation/ subdirectory of Git's own source code, the string `.git/HEAD` is printed. Side note: that bug is hidden when running in a subdirectory of a worktree that was added by the `git worktree` command: in that case, the (correct) absolute path of the `HEAD` file is printed. In the interest of time, this patch does not go the "correct" route to introduce a struct with repository information (and removing global state in the process), instead this patch chooses to detect when the command was called in a subdirectory and forces the result to be an absolute path. While at it, we are also fixing the output of --git-common-dir and --shared-index-path. Lastly, please note that we reuse the same strbuf for all of the relative_path() calls; this avoids frequent allocation (and duplicated code), and it does not risk memory leaks, for two reasons: 1) the cmd_rev_parse() function does not return anywhere between the use of the new strbuf instance and its final release, and 2) git-rev-parse is one of these "one-shot" programs in Git, i.e. it exits after running for a very short time, meaning that all allocated memory is released with the exit() call anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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