Re: [GSoC PATCH v4 6/7] repo: add path.git-prefix

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 10:39 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

K Jayatheerth [off-list ref] writes:

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On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 6:24 AM Lucas Seiki Oshiro
[off-list ref] wrote:

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Scripts sometimes need the path from the repository's working tree root
to the current working directory. While this information can be derived
through existing Git commands, `git repo info` does not currently expose
it as a scriptable key.

Even though I understand that this is a relevant info, it seems
to me that it's a little bit out of place here... This is
a "current directory information", not a "repository information".

I agree that path.git-prefix is technically current-directory information
rather than repository information.

The same thing can be said about "git rev-parse --show-cdup"; you
can complain that it is about the current working directory, but in
reality it is about how to get to the root of the working tree you
are currently working in, which means that it is very much about
repository information, only given as a relative path.  Nobody would
complain that you have 'path.commondir.relative' when you already
offer its '.absolute' counterpart, saying that '.relative' is about
your current working directory and not about the repository, right?

Very true, I agree with you. I believe cdup and git-prefix complement
each other well, so it makes sense to expose both.

The same story holds for 'path.git-prefix', I would think.  View it,
and "git rev-parse --show-prefix", as the inverse version of a
'path.root-of-the-working-tree.relative' (aka 'path.cdup') rather
than as being about the "current directory".

Oh, and if you are offering git-prefix, you should offer cdup as
well.

Sure, I will add cdup in the next version and send it.

Thank you!

- K Jayatheerth