Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Git.pm: Set GIT_WORK_TREE if we set GIT_DIR

From: Petr Baudis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 21:40:47 +0200

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:41:27PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> From: Frank Lichtenheld <[email-masked]>
> 
> Otherwise git will use the current directory as work tree which will
> lead to unexpected results if we operate in sub directory of the
> work tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  perl/Git.pm         |    2 ++
>  t/t9700-perl-git.sh |    4 ++++
>  t/t9700/test.pl     |   13 +++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> No comments and doesn't seem to have been applied, so resent unchanged.
> 
> diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
> index 291ff5b..4313db7 100644
> --- a/perl/Git.pm
> +++ b/perl/Git.pm
> @@ -1280,6 +1280,8 @@ sub _cmd_exec {
>  	my ($self, @args) = @_;
>  	if ($self) {
>  		$self->repo_path() and $ENV{'GIT_DIR'} = $self->repo_path();
> +		$self->repo_path() and $self->wc_path()
> +			and $ENV{'GIT_WORK_TREE'} = $self->wc_path();
>  		$self->wc_path() and chdir($self->wc_path());
>  		$self->wc_subdir() and chdir($self->wc_subdir());
>  	}

This looks obviously correct?

You could even skip the first chdir and use $self->wc_path() .
$self->wc_subdir() in the second one to save a syscall, I guess. ;-)

I've really forgot most of the code already so it's not worth much, but

Acked-by: Petr Baudis <[email-masked]>