# \[BUG\] Git 2.39.0+ Git.pm ignores Directory=\> argument for bare repos

- From: Hank Leininger \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-07-30 20:52:00 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/07/7973015
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/07/7973015/t.md

```text
Recent git versions (2.39.0 through 2.41.0) Git.pm seems to forget its
Directory argument for bare repos. Initial creation of a
Git->repository object will succeed, but subsequent $repo->command()
fails unless the repo is in pwd or is set in the GIT_DIR environment
argument.

  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ git init --bare test1.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test1.git/

  # success with 2.38.4
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ git --version
  git version 2.38.4
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ perl -MGit -e 'my $repo = Git->repository(Directory=>"/home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test1.git/")||die "git open failed: $!\n"; $repo->command("rev-list", "--all", "-1"); print "rev-list succeeded\n"'
  rev-list succeeded

  # fail with 2.41.0
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ git --version
  git version 2.41.0
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ perl -MGit -e 'my $repo =
  Git->repository(Directory=>"/home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test1.git/")||die "git open failed: $!\n"; $repo->command("rev-list", "--all", "-1"); print "rev-list succeeded\n"'
  fatal: not a git repository: '/home/patsy/tmp/repo-test'
  rev-list --all -1: command returned error: 128

  # success with 2.41.0 after cd
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ cd test1.git/
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test/test1.git $ perl -MGit -e 'my $repo = Git->repository(Directory=>"/home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test1.git/")||die "git open failed: $!\n"; $repo->command("rev-list", "--all", "-1"); print "rev-list succeeded\n"'
  rev-list succeeded

  # success with 2.41.0 with GIT_DIR= set
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $
  GIT_DIR=/home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test1.git/ perl -MGit -e 'my $repo = Git->repository(Directory=>"/home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test1.git/")||die "git open failed: $!\n"; $repo->command("rev-list", "--all", "-1"); print "rev-list succeeded\n"'
  rev-list succeeded

It seems to be only bare repos that are a problem:

  # success with 2.41.0 for a non-bare repo
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ git --version
  git version 2.41.0
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ git init test2
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test2/.git/
  patsy@ultron ~/tmp/repo-test $ perl -MGit -e 'my $repo = Git->repository(Directory=>"/home/patsy/tmp/repo-test/test2")||die "git open failed: $!\n"; $repo->command("rev-list", "--all", "-1"); print "rev-list succeeded\n"'
  rev-list succeeded

When stracing both, I can see that Git.pm does an initial execve of
git rev-parse --is-bare-repository --git-dir, and it *does* cd prior to
that. But running the specified command is done in a new child which
does not chdir first. For non-bare repos, the child executing the
command does chdir.

Thanks,

-- 

Hank Leininger [ref]
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