From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9r2 1/2] add `config_set` API for caching config-like files
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:01:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqvbqwpalt.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53C6C2BD.3030703@gmail.com> (Tanay Abhra's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:51:49 +0530")
Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com> writes:
> I have a question about renaming git_config() to git_config_raw().
> I was working on a patch and I am getting stuck here.
> It fails in t1001, t1020 & t4018. The reason for the last test failure
> is unknown right now. For the first two, it boils down to this,
>
> git init --bare bare-ancestor-aliased.git &&
> cd bare-ancestor-aliased.git &&
> echo "[alias] aliasedinit = init" >>config &&
> mkdir plain-nested &&
> cd plain-nested &&
> git aliasedinit
Git tries to read .git/config relative to the current directory, and
tries to resolve aliases from it. The problem is: if one tries to do
this from a subdirectory inside the repo, .git/config is not the right
path, and the alias lookup fails.
I'll investigate more later.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-17 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-15 14:29 [PATCH v9 0/3] git config cache & special querying api utilizing the cache Tanay Abhra
2014-07-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v9 1/2] add `config_set` API for caching config-like files Tanay Abhra
2014-07-15 15:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-15 16:22 ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-16 11:41 ` [PATCH v9r1 " Tanay Abhra
2014-07-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v9 2/2] test-config: add tests for the config_set API Tanay Abhra
2014-07-15 15:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-15 17:07 ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-15 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-16 11:44 ` [PATCH v9r1 " Tanay Abhra
2014-07-16 11:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-16 12:22 ` [PATCH v9r2 1/2] add `config_set` API for caching config-like files Tanay Abhra
2014-07-16 16:06 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-16 16:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] fixup for patch 2: minor style fix Matthieu Moy
2014-07-16 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] fixup for patch 2: actually check the return value Matthieu Moy
2014-07-16 16:55 ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-16 17:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-16 16:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] fixup for patch 1: typo Matthieu Moy
2014-07-16 16:44 ` [PATCH v9r2 1/2] add `config_set` API for caching config-like files Tanay Abhra
2014-07-16 17:06 ` Matthieu Moy
[not found] ` <53C6C2BD.3030703@gmail.com>
2014-07-17 10:01 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-07-17 11:06 ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-17 11:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-17 11:13 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-17 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-16 12:22 ` [PATCH v9r2 2/2] test-config: add tests for the config_set API Tanay Abhra
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=vpqvbqwpalt.fsf@anie.imag.fr \
--to=matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp$(echo .)fr \
--cc=artagnon@gmail$(echo .)com \
--cc=git@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox$(echo .)com \
--cc=tanayabh@gmail$(echo .)com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox