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Michael J Gruber
8547090c92 commit,status: describe -u likewise
They differ by one character only. Being exactly equal should help
translations.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
08918e4a38 add: describe --patch like checkout, reset
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
3f40617566 commit,merge,tag: describe -m likewise
This also removes the superfluous "specify" and rewords the misleading
"if any" which sounds as if omitting "-m" would omit the merge commit
message. (It means "if a merge commit is created at all".)

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
5027fa864d clone,init: describe --template using the same wording
This also corrects a wrong description for clone.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
ba9d7fe11c commit,status: describe --porcelain just like push
Push has the clearer description, so take that one for all.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
726c4e3d42 commit,tag: use same wording for -F
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
1e58dba142 configure: use AC_LANG_PROGRAM consistently
Avoid warnings from Autoconf 2.68 about missing use of AC_LANG_PROGRAM
and friends.

Quoting autoconf-2.68/NEWS:

  ** The macros AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, AC_LINK_IFELSE, and
     AC_RUN_IFELSE now warn if the first argument failed to use
     AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM to generate the conftest file
     contents.  A new macro AC_LANG_DEFINES_PROVIDED exists if you have
     a compelling reason why you cannot use AC_LANG_SOURCE but must
     avoid the warning.

The underlying reason for that change is that AC_LANG_{SOURCE,PROGRAM}
take care to supply the previously computed set of #defines (and
include standard headers if so desired) for preprocessed languages
like C and C++.

In some cases, AC_LANG_PROGRAM is already used but not sufficiently
m4-quoted, so we just need to add another set of [quotes] to prevent
the autoconf warning from being triggered bogusly.  Quoting all
arguments (except when calling special macros that need to be expanded
before recursion) is better style, anyway.  These and more rules are
described in detail in 'info Autoconf "Programming in M4"'.

No change in the resulting config.mak.autogen after running
./configure intended.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-14 10:55:15 -08:00
Jeff King
62b8102c60 string_list_append: always set util pointer to NULL
It is not immediately obvious that the util field may
contain random bytes after appending an item. Especially
since the string_list_insert* functions _do_ explicitly zero
the util pointer.

This does not appear to be a bug in any current git code, as
all callers either fill in the util field immediately or
never use it. However, it is worth it to be less surprising
to new users of the string-list API who may expect it to be
intialized to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-14 10:55:03 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
dab0d4108d correct type of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
Functions such as hashcmp that expect a binary SHA-1 value take
parameters of type "unsigned char *" to avoid accepting a textual
SHA-1 passed by mistake.  Unfortunately, this means passing the string
literal EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN requires an ugly cast.  Tweak the
definition of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN to produce a value of more
convenient type.

In the future the definition might change to

	extern const unsigned char empty_tree_sha1_bin[20];
	#define EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN empty_tree_sha1_bin

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-14 10:48:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9971d6d52c Git 1.7.4.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-11 14:39:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b76bf72428 Merge branch 'jc/fsck-fixes' into maint
* jc/fsck-fixes:
  fsck: do not give up too early in fsck_dir()
  fsck: drop unused parameter from traverse_one_object()
2011-02-11 14:26:10 -08:00
Chris Packham
3446a54c9a clone: fixup recurse_submodules option
The recurse_submodules option was added in ccdd3da6 to bring 'git clone'
into line with 'git fetch' and future commands. The correct option should
have been "recurse-submodules".

Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-11 14:24:34 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
75323459b8 svn-fe: warn about experimental status
svn-fe is young and some coming cleanups might involve backward
incompatible UI changes.  Add some words of warning to the manual so
early adopters that are not following the project closely don't get
burned.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-11 10:13:14 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
1368f65002 compat: helper for detecting unsigned overflow
The idiom (a + b < a) works fine for detecting that an unsigned
integer has overflowed, but a more explicit

	unsigned_add_overflows(a, b)

might be easier to read.

Define such a macro, expanding roughly to ((a) < UINT_MAX - (b)).
Because the expansion uses each argument only once outside of sizeof()
expressions, it is safe to use with arguments that have side effects.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 13:47:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a8e4a5943a Merge branch 'maint-1.7.0' into maint
* maint-1.7.0:
  fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
  fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
2011-02-09 16:40:12 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
547e8b9205 fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
Here is a 'feature' command for streams to use to require support for
the notemodify (N) command.

When the 'feature' facility was introduced (v1.7.0-rc0~95^2~4,
2009-12-04), the notes import feature was old news (v1.6.6-rc0~21^2~8,
2009-10-09) and it was not obvious it deserved to be a named feature.
But now that is clear, since all major non-git fast-import backends
lack support for it.

Details: on git version with this patch applied, any "feature notes"
command in the features/options section at the beginning of a stream
will be treated as a no-op.  On fast-import implementations without
the feature (and older git versions), the command instead errors out
with a message like

	This version of fast-import does not support feature notes.

So by declaring use of notes at the beginning of a stream, frontends
can avoid wasting time and other resources when the backend does not
support notes.  (This would be especially important for backends that
do not support rewinding history after a botched import.)

Improved-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Improved-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09 16:06:51 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
68595cd442 fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command
The "feature" command allows streams to specify options for the import
that must not be ignored.  Logically, they are part of the stream,
even though technically most supported features are synonyms to
command-line options.

Make this more obvious by being more explicit about how the analogy
between most "feature" commands and command-line options works.  Treat
the feature (import-marks) that does not fit this analogy separately.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09 16:06:47 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
59ab4eb36e Documentation/merge subtree How-To: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09 14:03:51 -08:00
Jens Lehmann
7811d9600f pull: Document the "--[no-]recurse-submodules" options
In commits be254a0ea9 and 7dce19d374 the handling of the new fetch options
"--[no-]recurse-submodules" had been added to git-pull.sh. But they were
not documented as the pull options they now are, so let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:19:09 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
cf548cacdd quote.h: simplify the inclusion
Attempting to include quote.h without first including strbuf.h results
in warnings:

 ./quote.h:33:33: warning: ‘struct strbuf’ declared inside parameter list
 ./quote.h:33:33: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
 ./quote.h:34:34: warning: ‘struct strbuf’ declared inside parameter list
 ...

Add a toplevel declaration for struct strbuf to avoid this.

While at it, stop including system headers from quote.h.  git source
files already need to include git-compat-util.h sooner to ensure the
appropriate feature test macros are defined.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:15:17 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
c4d9986f5f sha1_object_info: examine cached_object store too
Cached object store was added in d66b37b (Add pretend_sha1_file()
interface. - 2007-02-04) as a way to temporarily inject some objects
to object store.

But only read_sha1_file() knows about this store. While it will return
an object from this store, sha1_object_info() will happily say
"object not found".

Teach sha1_object_info() about the cached store for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:05:48 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
c597ba8010 sha1_file.c: move find_cached_object up so sha1_object_info can use it
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:05:46 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
cf7b1cad0e Add const to parse_{commit,tag}_buffer()
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:04:42 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a2b7a3b3a9 diff: support --cached on unborn branches
"git diff --cached" (without revision) used to mean "git diff --cached
HEAD" (i.e. the user was too lazy to type HEAD). This "correctly"
failed when there was no commit yet. But was that correctness useful?

This patch changes the definition of what particular command means.
It is a request to show what _would_ be committed without further "git
add". The internal implementation is the same "git diff --cached HEAD"
when HEAD exists, but when there is no commit yet, it compares the index
with an empty tree object to achieve the desired result.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:04:30 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
2e9c8789b7 gitweb: Mention optional Perl modules in INSTALL
Some optional additional Perl modules are required for some of extra
features.  Mention those in gitweb/INSTALL.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 14:29:15 -08:00
Sitaram Chamarty
80aa55b40b post-receive-email: suppress error if description file missing
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 14:28:21 -08:00
Pat Thoyts
c91897b3b0 t7407: fix line endings for mingw build
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 14:27:46 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
97a853d34b t4120-apply-popt: help systems with core.filemode=false
A test case verifies that filemode-only patches work as expected. Help
systems where "test -x" does not work by applying the test patch also to
the index, where the effects can be verified even on such systems.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 14:27:25 -08:00
Pat Thoyts
899663f8e4 t3509: use unconstrained initial test to setup repository.
The first test did not run on msysGit due to the SYMLINKS constraint and
so subsequent tests failed because the test repository was not initialized.

Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 14:27:10 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
13af8cbd6a start_command: flush buffers in the WIN32 code path as well
The POSIX code path did The Right Thing already, but we have to do the same
on Windows.

This bug caused failures in t5526-fetch-submodules, where the output of
'git fetch --recurse-submodules' was in the wrong order.

Debugged-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 14:18:56 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
787d2a784b bundle: Use OFS_DELTA in bundle files
git-bundle first appeared in 2e0afafe ("Add git-bundle") in Feb 2007,
and first shipped in Git 1.5.1.

However, OFS_DELTA is an even earlier invention, coming about in
eb32d236 ("introduce delta objects with offset to base") in Sep 2006,
and first shipped in Git 1.4.4.5.

OFS_DELTA is smaller, about 3.2%-5% smaller, and is typically faster
to access than REF_DELTA because the exact location of the delta base
is available after parsing the object header.  Since all bundle aware
versions of Git are also OFS_DELTA aware, just make it the default.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-06 22:50:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
597a630542 Merge branch 'jl/fetch-submodule-recursive' into maint
* jl/fetch-submodule-recursive:
  t5526: Fix wrong argument order in "git config"
2011-01-31 10:05:57 -08:00
Jens Lehmann
a2a564686f t5526: Fix wrong argument order in "git config"
This fixes a typo where the "git config" arguments "-f" and "--unset" were
swapped leading to the creation of a "--unset" file.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-31 09:59:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7ed863a85a Git 1.7.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-30 19:02:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ea6f0a23ac fsck: do not give up too early in fsck_dir()
When there is a random garbage file whose name happens to be 38-byte
long in a .git/objects/??/ directory, the loop terminated prematurely
without marking all the other files that it hasn't checked in the
readdir() loop.

Treat such a file just like any other garbage file, and do not break out
of the readdir() loop.

While at it, replace repeated sprintf() calls to a single one outside the
loop.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-27 12:58:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a1cdc25172 fsck: drop unused parameter from traverse_one_object()
Also add comments to seemingly unsafe pointer dereferences, that
are all safe.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-27 12:58:10 -08:00
Adam Tkac
d2d434beeb Don't pass "--xhtml" to hightlight in gitweb.perl script.
The "--xhtml" option is supported only in highlight < 3.0. There is no option
to enforce (X)HTML output format compatible with both highlight < 3.0 and
highlight >= 3.0. However default output format is HTML so we don't need to
explicitly specify it.

Signed-off-by: Adam Tkac <atkac@redhat.com>
Helped-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-27 12:13:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
99e63ef24e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  rebase -i: clarify in-editor documentation of "exec"
  tests: sanitize more git environment variables
  fast-import: treat filemodify with empty tree as delete
  rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch
  rebase: use explicit "--" with checkout

Conflicts:
	t/t9300-fast-import.sh
2011-01-27 10:27:49 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
960ac5ff99 rebase -i: clarify in-editor documentation of "exec"
The hints in the current "instruction sheet" template look like so:

 # Rebase 3f14246..a1d7e01 onto 3f14246
 #
 # Commands:
 #  p, pick = use commit
 #  r, reword = use commit, but edit the commit message
 #  e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
 #  s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit
 #  f, fixup = like "squash", but discard this commit's log message
 #  x <cmd>, exec <cmd> = Run a shell command <cmd>, and stop if it fails
 #
 # If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST.
 # However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted.
 #

This does not make it clear that the format of each line is

	<insn> <commit id> <explanatory text that will be printed>

but the reader will probably infer that from the automatically
generated pick examples above it.

What about the "exec" instruction?  By analogy, I might imagine that
the format of that line is "exec <command> <explanatory text>", and
the "x <cmd>" hint does not address that question (at first I read it
as taking an argument <cmd> that is the name of a shell).  Meanwhile,
the mention of <cmd> makes the hints harder to scan as a table.

So remove the <cmd> and add some words to remind the reader that
"exec" runs a command named by the rest of the line.  To make room, it
is left to the manpage to explain that that command is run using
$SHELL and that nonzero status from that command will pause the
rebase.

Wording from Junio.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-27 10:24:09 -08:00
Jeff King
a1231de002 tests: sanitize more git environment variables
These variables should generally not be set in one's
environment, but they do get set by rebase, which means
doing an interactive rebase like:

  pick abcd1234 foo
  exec make test

will cause false negatives in the test suite.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-27 10:24:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5ce3258122 Merge branch 'jn/fast-import-empty-tree-removal' into maint
* jn/fast-import-empty-tree-removal:
  fast-import: treat filemodify with empty tree as delete
2011-01-27 10:23:53 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
8fe533f686 fast-import: treat filemodify with empty tree as delete
Normal git processes do not allow one to build a tree with an empty
subtree entry without trying hard at it.  This is in keeping with the
general UI philosophy: git tracks content, not empty directories.

v1.7.3-rc0~75^2 (2010-06-30) changed that by making it easy to include
an empty subtree in fast-import's active commit:

	M 040000 4b825dc642 subdir

One can trigger this by reading an empty tree (for example, the tree
corresponding to an empty root commit) and trying to move it to a
subtree.  It is better and more closely analogous to 'git read-tree
--prefix' to treat such commands as requests to remove the subtree.

Noticed-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-27 10:22:37 -08:00
Jeff King
4ac5356c62 rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch
When you give a non-existent branch to git-rebase, it spits
out the usage. This can be confusing, since you may
understand the usage just fine, but simply have made a
mistake in the branch name.

Before:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

After:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  fatal: no such branch: bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-26 17:27:02 -08:00
Jeff King
3b21a438c9 rebase: use explicit "--" with checkout
In the case of a ref/pathname conflict, checkout will
already do the right thing and checkout the ref. However,
for a non-existant ref, this has two advantages:

  1. If a file with that pathname exists, rebase will
     refresh the file from the index and then rebase the
     current branch instead of producing an error.

  2. If no such file exists, the error message using an
     explicit "--" is better:

       # before
       $ git rebase -i origin bogus
       error: pathspec 'bogus' did not match any file(s) known to git.
       Could not checkout bogus

       # after
       $ git rebase -i origin bogus
       fatal: invalid reference: bogus
       Could not checkout bogus

The problems seem to be trigger-able only through "git
rebase -i", as regular git-rebase checks the validity of the
branch parameter as a ref very early on. However, it doesn't
hurt to be defensive.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-26 17:26:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
630fc7878b Git 1.7.4-rc3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-24 11:00:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
342953a686 Merge branch 'as/userdiff-pascal'
* as/userdiff-pascal:
  userdiff: match Pascal class methods
2011-01-24 10:54:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0efbb7d9f4 Merge branch 'jn/setup-fixes'
* jn/setup-fixes:
  t1510: fix typo in the comment of a test
  Documentation updates for 'GIT_WORK_TREE without GIT_DIR' historical usecase
  Subject: setup: officially support --work-tree without --git-dir
  tests: compress the setup tests
  tests: cosmetic improvements to the repo-setup test
  t/README: hint about using $(pwd) rather than $PWD in tests
  Fix expected values of setup tests on Windows
2011-01-24 10:53:09 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
6abbee8c60 t1510: fix typo in the comment of a test
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-24 10:14:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ea472c1e35 Documentation updates for 'GIT_WORK_TREE without GIT_DIR' historical usecase
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-24 10:13:59 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
4868b2ea17 Subject: setup: officially support --work-tree without --git-dir
The original intention of --work-tree was to allow people to work in a
subdirectory of their working tree that does not have an embedded .git
directory.  Because their working tree, which their $cwd was in, did not
have an embedded .git, they needed to use $GIT_DIR to specify where it is,
and because this meant there was no way to discover where the root level
of the working tree was, so we needed to add $GIT_WORK_TREE to tell git
where it was.

However, this facility has long been (mis)used by people's scripts to
start git from a working tree _with_ an embedded .git directory, let git
find .git directory, and then pretend as if an unrelated directory were
the associated working tree of the .git directory found by the discovery
process.  It happens to work in simple cases, and is not worth causing
"regression" to these scripts.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-21 14:31:24 -08:00