Re: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: support non-standard $GIT_DIR path

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Dennis Kaarsemaker [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 I'm doing daily builds of git, using many workers and a shared git.git,
 with per-worker checkouts

OK, so GIT_DIR is explicitly specified in these "workers".

Makes sense.

Actually it does not.  What if GIT_DIR is an empty string or not set
at all?  The patch breaks the build for everybody else, doesn't it?

Perhaps like this instead?

 GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 2908204..91ec831 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LF='
 if test -f version
 then
 	VN=$(cat version) || VN="$DEF_VER"
-elif test -d .git -o -f .git &&
+elif test -d ${GIT_DIR:-.git} -o -f .git &&
 	VN=$(git describe --match "v[0-9]*" --abbrev=7 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
 	case "$VN" in
 	*$LF*) (exit 1) ;;