git-clone: don't get fooled by $PWD

If you have /home/me/git symlink pointing at /pub/git/mine,
trying to clone from /pub/git/his/ using relative path would not
work as expected:

	$ cd /home/me
        $ cd git
        $ ls ../
        his    mine
        $ git clone -l -s -n ../his/stuff.git

This is because "cd ../his/stuff.git" done inside git-clone to
check if the repository is local is confused by $PWD, which is
set to /home/me, and tries to go to /home/his/stuff.git which is
different from /pub/git/his/stuff.git.

We could probably say "set -P" (or "cd -P") instead, if we know
the shell is POSIX, but the way the patch is coded is probably
more portable.

[jc: this is updated with Andy Whitcroft's improvements]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index cad5c0c088..70374aaaf0 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,14 @@ usage() {
 }
 
 get_repo_base() {
-	(cd "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2> /dev/null
+	(
+		cd "`/bin/pwd`" &&
+		cd "$1" &&
+		{
+			cd .git 2>/dev/null
+			pwd
+		}
+	)
 }
 
 if [ -n "$GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY" ]; then