From 2cd83d10bb6bcf768129e1c4e5a4dee4b6bcd27f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 04:32:22 -0500 Subject: setup: suppress implicit "." work-tree for bare repos If an explicit GIT_DIR is given without a working tree, we implicitly assume that the current working directory should be used as the working tree. E.g.,: GIT_DIR=/some/repo.git git status would compare against the cwd. Unfortunately, we fool this rule for sub-invocations of git by setting GIT_DIR internally ourselves. For example: git init foo cd foo/.git git status ;# fails, as we expect git config alias.st status git status ;# does not fail, but should What happens is that we run setup_git_directory when doing alias lookup (since we need to see the config), set GIT_DIR as a result, and then leave GIT_WORK_TREE blank (because we do not have one). Then when we actually run the status command, we do setup_git_directory again, which sees our explicit GIT_DIR and uses the cwd as an implicit worktree. It's tempting to argue that we should be suppressing that second invocation of setup_git_directory, as it could use the values we already found in memory. However, the problem still exists for sub-processes (e.g., if "git status" were an external command). You can see another example with the "--bare" option, which sets GIT_DIR explicitly. For example: git init foo cd foo/.git git status ;# fails git --bare status ;# does NOT fail We need some way of telling sub-processes "even though GIT_DIR is set, do not use cwd as an implicit working tree". We could do it by putting a special token into GIT_WORK_TREE, but the obvious choice (an empty string) has some portability problems. Instead, we add a new boolean variable, GIT_IMPLICIT_WORK_TREE, which suppresses the use of cwd as a working tree when GIT_DIR is set. We trigger the new variable when we know we are in a bare setting. The variable is left intentionally undocumented, as this is an internal detail (for now, anyway). If somebody comes up with a good alternate use for it, and once we are confident we have shaken any bugs out of it, we can consider promoting it further. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- setup.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'setup.c') diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c index d0e3ecdcd4..01c5476eb7 100644 --- a/setup.c +++ b/setup.c @@ -497,6 +497,12 @@ static const char *setup_explicit_git_dir(const char *gitdirenv, set_git_work_tree(core_worktree); } } + else if (!git_env_bool(GIT_IMPLICIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, 1)) { + /* #16d */ + set_git_dir(gitdirenv); + free(gitfile); + return NULL; + } else /* #2, #10 */ set_git_work_tree("."); @@ -575,6 +581,8 @@ static const char *setup_bare_git_dir(char *cwd, int offset, int len, int *nongi if (check_repository_format_gently(".", nongit_ok)) return NULL; + setenv(GIT_IMPLICIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, "0", 1); + /* --work-tree is set without --git-dir; use discovered one */ if (getenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT) || git_work_tree_cfg) { const char *gitdir; -- cgit v1.2.1