Re: [PATCH] git-gui: make "Git GUI Here" Explorer extension more robust

Giuseppe Bilotta, 31.03.2009:

On Monday 30 March 2009 16:15, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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Markus Heidelberg [off-list ref] wrote:

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But I just noticed, that it will obviously "cd .." forever, if no .git/
was found. Somehow the root directory has to be catched.

Yup.  I'm dropping this patch for now because of this issue, but
I'll look at it again if its addressed in another version.  :-)

I have a couple of pending patches to fix git gui handling of repositories,
including support for nonstandard repository locations and bare repositories.
You can find them at

http://git.oblomov.eu/git

and specifically

http://git.oblomov.eu/git/patches/b2e4c32e13df1b7f18e7b4a9f746650471a3122e..a63526bf3238cf25d9a5521f7ee35ed1bd11cb16

I just tried these two patches on Windows (Uhh, Qemu is too slow for
this, I have to setup something else).

I got distracted by real-life issue and forgot to resend them. I'll try
to find the time again later on this week. I'm not entirely sure these
solve Markus' problem though.

Starting git-gui via Explorer "Git GUI Here" is now possible from the
.git/ directory with your patches, but it doesn't show the working tree
status. Also "Explore Working Copy" wants to open the .git directory
then instead of the project directory (I say "want" because of the issue
I just sent a patch out). It seems to be as non-functional as if you run
"git status" inside of .git/

Markus