Re: [RFC] introduce GIT_WORK_DIR environment variable

On 3/11/07, Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref] wrote:

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] wrote:

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My case seems a bit complicated than usual. The working directory
(/home/pclouds/blog/data) was not a prefix of cwd (/home/pclouds/blog)
so the code failed silently at this line. If I replace
"has_working_directory = 0; return NULL;" with "strcpy(cwd,gitwd);c =
0;break;", it may work but see below

If you're outside the specifed working directory the
is_bare_repository will return true, just as if you don't have a
working directory.  Do you expect anything else or doesn't this work?

Yes I expected it to move the specified working directory as described
in the previous mail (copied/pasted below). However the patch requires
me to be in workdir somewhere already (which is fine if that is your
expectation). If that's the case, maybe you should tell users
something about GIT_WORK_DIR not applicable.

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] wrote:

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By the way, is it plausible to add --git-workdir option to specify
working directory? With that option, I won't need to _chdir_ to the
working directory, run git commands and _chdir back_.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/38382
Since I did not need this feature that much and no one replied that
there is any interest I did not look any further into it.

-- 
Duy