8500e0de3f
When we change to the top of the working tree, we manually
re-adjust $GIT_DIR and call set_git_dir() again, in order to
update any relative git-dir we'd compute earlier.
Instead of the work-tree code having to know to call the
git-dir code, let's use the new chdir_notify interface.
There are two spots that need updating, with a few
subtleties in each:
1. the set_git_dir() code needs to chdir_notify_register()
so it can be told when to update its path.
Technically we could push this down into repo_set_gitdir(),
so that even repository structs besides the_repository
could benefit from this. But that opens up a lot of
complications:
- we'd still need to touch set_git_dir(), because it
does some other setup (like setting $GIT_DIR in the
environment)
- submodules using other repository structs get
cleaned up, which means we'd need to remove them
from the chdir_notify list
- it's unlikely to fix any bugs, since we shouldn't
generally chdir() in the middle of working on a
submodule
2. setup_work_tree now needs to call chdir_notify(), and
can lose its manual set_git_dir() call.
Note that at first glance it looks like this undoes the
absolute-to-relative optimization added by 044bbbcb63
(Make git_dir a path relative to work_tree in
setup_work_tree(), 2008-06-19). But for the most part
that optimization was just _undoing_ the
relative-to-absolute conversion which the function was
doing earlier (and which is now gone).
It is true that if you already have an absolute git_dir
that the setup_work_tree() function will no longer make
it relative as a side effect. But:
- we generally do have relative git-dir's due to the
way the discovery code works
- if we really care about making git-dir's relative
when possible, then we should be relativizing them
earlier (e.g., when we see an absolute $GIT_DIR we
could turn it relative, whether we are going to
chdir into a worktree or not). That would cover all
cases, including ones that 044bbbcb63 did not.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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