Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

Heya,

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 22:35, Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] wrote:

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I thought we cd into the repository in the middle of clone somewhere,
before running stuff.

It does, but not soon enough, that is, not before I needed it in my helper.

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In any case, I think it would be good to have
something like that, but I think maybe we should tell it where it can put
its status files, rather than telling it where the .git dir is.

Yes, that would probably be a good idea, .git/info/remote-<vcs>/<alias> perhaps?

Seems reasonable to me, unless we make it .git/info/remote-<vcs>, and tell 
helper authors to deal with having different imports not conflict with 
each other.

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It would
also be nice if this is the absolute path that gfi will base a relative
path for the "marks" options on when importing.

The marks option has been dumped in favor of 'feature import-marks='
and 'feature export-marks=' which will be in the reroll of
sr/gfi-options.

Right, but the values of those have to be paths, and I think they should 
be relative paths, relative to the helper's state directory.

	-Daniel
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