Re: Built-in checkout: wrong behaviour in subdirectories

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

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Junio: it looks like something used to cause read-tree to be run with 
pwd being the working tree root in git-checkout.sh.

"Something"?  I think we explicitly cdup when switching
branches, and we should do the same in C rewrite.

        # We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
        # we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
        cd_to_toplevel

Isn't it just the matter of not passing prefix to topts in
merge_working_tree()?  Your other calls to unpack_trees() do not
seem to pass bogus prefix to it.

IIRC, the "prefix" to unpack_trees() is not about the path
limiter, but grafting a tree into a place where it originally
was not intended to be (i.e. to support "read-tree --prefix").