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From: Daniel Convissor <danielc@analysisandsolutions•com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hitting home directory's parent
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:12:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090823051244.GB10761@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090822181607.GA25823@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi Jeff:

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:16:07PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> Without looking, I would not be surprised if it is a side effect of
> git trying to look up help-related config.

That explains what's happening.  cmd_help() calls git_config().  Though 
it seems it would be more, uh, helpful, if help produced basic usage 
output no matter what, and then produce the more detailed config based 
output if possible.


> Probably it is calling "setup_git_directory_gently" and ignoring an
> error return, but there is a die() inside that function. The bug
> then is that the _gently form is calling die().

Yep.  setup.c, lines 391 and 392 (master branch):
		if (chdir(".."))
			die_errno("Cannot change to '%s/..'", cwd);


> As for fixing the setup code, I am sadly way behind on my git queue and
> not likely to catch up to this anytime soon. So if anybody feels like
> taking a stab at it, that would be very welcome.

Is there a bug tracker y'all use where I can enter a ticket?

Thanks,

--Dan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-23  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21 20:05 hitting home directory's parent Daniel Convissor
2009-08-22  4:10 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-08-22 15:05   ` Daniel Convissor
2009-08-22 16:20     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-08-22 16:22       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-08-22 18:16       ` Jeff King
2009-08-23  4:07         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-08-25  4:42           ` Jeff King
2009-08-23  5:12         ` Daniel Convissor [this message]
2009-08-25  4:48           ` Jeff King
2009-08-23  4:42       ` Daniel Convissor

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