Subject: [PATCH v3 3/4] for-each-repo: work correctly in a worktree

From: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:36:44 +0000

From: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>

When run in a worktree, the GIT_DIR directory is set in a different way
than in a typical repository. Show this by updating t0068 to include a
worktree and add a test that runs from that worktree. This requires
moving the repo.key config into a global config instead of the base test
repository's local config (demonstrating that it worked with
non-worktree Git repositories).

We need to be careful to unset the local Git environment variables and
let the child process rediscover them, while also reinstating those
variables in the parent process afterwards. Update run_command_on_repo()
to use the new clear_local_repo_env() helper method to erase these
environment variables.

During review of this bug fix, there were several incorrect patches
demonstrating different bad behaviors. Most of these are covered by
tests, when it is not too expensive to set it up. One case that would be
expensive to set up is the GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS environment variable,
but we trust that using clear_local_repo_env() will be sufficient to
capture these uncovered cases by using the common code for resetting
environment variables.

Reported-by: Matthew Gabeler-Lee <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/for-each-repo.c  |  4 +++-
 t/t0068-for-each-repo.sh | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/for-each-repo.c b/builtin/for-each-repo.c
index 325a7925f1..8bbdc33128 100644
--- a/builtin/for-each-repo.c
+++ b/builtin/for-each-repo.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "config.h"
+#include "environment.h"
 #include "gettext.h"
 #include "parse-options.h"
 #include "path.h"
@@ -15,10 +16,11 @@ static const char * const for_each_repo_usage[] = {
 
 static int run_command_on_repo(const char *path, int argc, const char ** argv)
 {
-	int i;
 	struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
 	char *abspath = interpolate_path(path, 0);
 
+	clear_local_repo_env(&child.env);
+
 	child.git_cmd = 1;
 	strvec_pushl(&child.args, "-C", abspath, NULL);
 
diff --git a/t/t0068-for-each-repo.sh b/t/t0068-for-each-repo.sh
index 512af34c82..80b163ea99 100755
--- a/t/t0068-for-each-repo.sh
+++ b/t/t0068-for-each-repo.sh
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ TEST_NO_CREATE_REPO=1
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 test_expect_success 'run based on configured value' '
-	git init one &&
-	git init two &&
-	git init three &&
-	git init ~/four &&
+	git init --initial-branch=one one &&
+	git init --initial-branch=two two &&
+	git -C two worktree add --orphan ../three &&
+	git -C three checkout -b three &&
+	git init --initial-branch=four ~/four &&
+
 	git -C two commit --allow-empty -m "DID NOT RUN" &&
 	git config --global run.key "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/one" &&
 	git config --global --add run.key "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/three" &&
@@ -35,7 +37,43 @@ test_expect_success 'run based on configured value' '
 	git -C three log -1 --pretty=format:%s >message &&
 	grep again message &&
 	git -C ~/four log -1 --pretty=format:%s >message &&
-	grep again message
+	grep again message &&
+
+	git -C three for-each-repo --config=run.key -- \
+		commit --allow-empty -m "ran from worktree" &&
+	git -C one log -1 --pretty=format:%s >message &&
+	test_grep "ran from worktree" message &&
+	git -C two log -1 --pretty=format:%s >message &&
+	test_grep ! "ran from worktree" message &&
+	git -C three log -1 --pretty=format:%s >message &&
+	test_grep "ran from worktree" message &&
+	git -C ~/four log -1 --pretty=format:%s >message &&
+	test_grep "ran from worktree" message &&
+
+	# Test running with config values set by environment
+	cat >expect <<-EOF &&
+	ran from worktree (HEAD -> refs/heads/one)
+	ran from worktree (HEAD -> refs/heads/three)
+	ran from worktree (HEAD -> refs/heads/four)
+	EOF
+
+	GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS="${SQ}log.decorate=full${SQ}" \
+		git -C three for-each-repo --config=run.key -- log --format="%s%d" -1 >out &&
+	test_cmp expect out &&
+
+	cat >test-config <<-EOF &&
+	[run]
+		key = $(pwd)/one
+		key = $(pwd)/three
+		key = $(pwd)/four
+
+	[log]
+		decorate = full
+	EOF
+
+	GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL="$(pwd)/test-config" \
+		git -C three for-each-repo --config=run.key -- log --format="%s%d" -1 >out &&
+	test_cmp expect out
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'do nothing on empty config' '
-- 
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