Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

* ml/workdir (Sun Mar 11 22:29:06 2007 +0100) 3 commits
 - use $GIT_DIR/workdir as working directory with $GIT_DIR
 - introduce GIT_WORK_DIR environment variable
 - rev-parse: --is-bare-repository option

Not in 'next' yet, but I think this one is ready to be tested.
We need testsuite for it before that happens, though.

Will you apply the git-init patch too?

I did not write any tests yet, but I can try.

Here is what I thought about:

check that --work-dir overrides $GIT_WORK_DIR and both override
$GIT_DIR/workdir.

use a correct and an invalid path for:
    $GIT_DIR/workdir:
        file containing a relative and an absolute path
        symlink pointing to an invalid path, a directory, a file
        test a symlink to something else (e.g. device, fifo, ..) too?
        directory
    $GIT_WORK_DIR: relative and absolute path
    and test what git does with git-rev-parse
            --is-bare-repository
            --show-prefix
            --show-cdup

test git rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir

A symlink pointing to an invalid path is currently handled as if there
is no $GIT_DIR/workdir at all because stat returns ENOENT.  Is this ok
or should git complain like it does for an invalid path when
$GIT_DIR/workdir is a file?  We could also decide to ignore all
invalid workdir settings and handle this the same as being outside the
workdir.