Re: [RFC PATCH] Add support for figuring out where in the git archive we are

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Merged, pushed out, and tested.  Ouch.  Fails on t0000 test.

It's because the new git-diff-files expects there to be a valid readable 
.git/HEAD, and is unhappy since the test hasn't updated HEAD.

This trivial patch fixes it.

		Linus
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Fix test failure due to overly strict .git directory tests

We may not actually have a valid HEAD at all times, so relax the validity 
tests for a .git subdirectory accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c

@@ -81,10 +81,9 @@ const char *setup_git_directory(void)
 	offset = len = strlen(cwd);
 	for (;;) {
 		/*
-		 * We always want to see a .git/HEAD and a .git/refs/
-		 * subdirectory
+		 * We always want to see a .git/refs/ subdirectory
 		 */
-		if (!access(".git/HEAD", R_OK) && !access(".git/refs/", X_OK)) {
+		if (!access(".git/refs/", X_OK)) {
 			/*
 			 * Then we need either a GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY define
 			 * or a .git/objects/ directory