Merge remote-tracking branch 'ko/maint' into jc/diff-index-quick-exit-early

* ko/maint: (4352 commits)
  git-submodule.sh: separate parens by a space to avoid confusing some shells
  Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt: correct name of diff_unmerge()
  read_gitfile_gently: use ssize_t to hold read result
  remove tests of always-false condition
  rerere.c: diagnose a corrupt MERGE_RR when hitting EOF between TAB and '\0'
  Git 1.7.5.3
  init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dir
  do not read beyond end of malloc'd buffer
  git-svn: Fix git svn log --show-commit
  Git 1.7.5.2
  provide a copy of the LGPLv2.1
  test core.gitproxy configuration
  copy_gecos: fix not adding nlen to len when processing "&"
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.5.2
  Documentation/git-fsck.txt: fix typo: unreadable -> unreachable
  send-pack: avoid deadlock on git:// push with failed pack-objects
  connect: let callers know if connection is a socket
  connect: treat generic proxy processes like ssh processes
  sideband_demux(): fix decl-after-stmt
  t3503: test cherry picking and reverting root commits
  ...

Conflicts:
	diff.c

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index e8df55d2f2..a86ab709c2 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Git - Perl interface to the Git version control system
 
 package Git;
 
+use 5.008;
 use strict;
 
 
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ increase notwithstanding).
 
 use Carp qw(carp croak); # but croak is bad - throw instead
 use Error qw(:try);
-use Cwd qw(abs_path);
+use Cwd qw(abs_path cwd);
 use IPC::Open2 qw(open2);
 use Fcntl qw(SEEK_SET SEEK_CUR);
 }
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ sub repository {
 	}
 
 	if (defined $opts{Directory}) {
-		-d $opts{Directory} or throw Error::Simple("Directory not found: $!");
+		-d $opts{Directory} or throw Error::Simple("Directory not found: $opts{Directory} $!");
 
 		my $search = Git->repository(WorkingCopy => $opts{Directory});
 		my $dir;
@@ -204,14 +205,14 @@ sub repository {
 			$dir = $opts{Directory};
 
 			unless (-d "$dir/refs" and -d "$dir/objects" and -e "$dir/HEAD") {
-				# Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
+				# Mimic git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
 				throw Error::Simple("fatal: Not a git repository: $dir");
 			}
 			my $search = Git->repository(Repository => $dir);
 			try {
 				$search->command('symbolic-ref', 'HEAD');
 			} catch Git::Error::Command with {
-				# Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
+				# Mimic git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
 				throw Error::Simple("fatal: Not a git repository: $dir");
 			}
 
@@ -395,7 +396,16 @@ See C<command_close_bidi_pipe()> for details.
 
 sub command_bidi_pipe {
 	my ($pid, $in, $out);
+	my ($self) = _maybe_self(@_);
+	local %ENV = %ENV;
+	my $cwd_save = undef;
+	if ($self) {
+		shift;
+		$cwd_save = cwd();
+		_setup_git_cmd_env($self);
+	}
 	$pid = open2($in, $out, 'git', @_);
+	chdir($cwd_save) if $cwd_save;
 	return ($pid, $in, $out, join(' ', @_));
 }
 
@@ -545,7 +555,7 @@ sub wc_chdir {
 		or throw Error::Simple("bare repository");
 
 	-d $self->wc_path().'/'.$subdir
-		or throw Error::Simple("subdir not found: $!");
+		or throw Error::Simple("subdir not found: $subdir $!");
 	# Of course we will not "hold" the subdirectory so anyone
 	# can delete it now and we will never know. But at least we tried.
 
@@ -842,7 +852,7 @@ sub _open_hash_and_insert_object_if_needed {
 
 	($self->{hash_object_pid}, $self->{hash_object_in},
 	 $self->{hash_object_out}, $self->{hash_object_ctx}) =
-		command_bidi_pipe(qw(hash-object -w --stdin-paths));
+		$self->command_bidi_pipe(qw(hash-object -w --stdin-paths --no-filters));
 }
 
 sub _close_hash_and_insert_object {
@@ -931,7 +941,7 @@ sub _open_cat_blob_if_needed {
 
 	($self->{cat_blob_pid}, $self->{cat_blob_in},
 	 $self->{cat_blob_out}, $self->{cat_blob_ctx}) =
-		command_bidi_pipe(qw(cat-file --batch));
+		$self->command_bidi_pipe(qw(cat-file --batch));
 }
 
 sub _close_cat_blob {
@@ -1278,6 +1288,14 @@ sub _command_common_pipe {
 # for the given repository and execute the git command.
 sub _cmd_exec {
 	my ($self, @args) = @_;
+	_setup_git_cmd_env($self);
+	_execv_git_cmd(@args);
+	die qq[exec "@args" failed: $!];
+}
+
+# set up the appropriate state for git command
+sub _setup_git_cmd_env {
+	my $self = shift;
 	if ($self) {
 		$self->repo_path() and $ENV{'GIT_DIR'} = $self->repo_path();
 		$self->repo_path() and $self->wc_path()
@@ -1285,8 +1303,6 @@ sub _cmd_exec {
 		$self->wc_path() and chdir($self->wc_path());
 		$self->wc_subdir() and chdir($self->wc_subdir());
 	}
-	_execv_git_cmd(@args);
-	die qq[exec "@args" failed: $!];
 }
 
 # Execute the given Git command ($_[0]) with arguments ($_[1..])