| commit | 4b0c3c7735716e8e1faba9a25b4aebf019d8570a | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | Tue Feb 14 15:36:19 2017 -0500 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue Feb 14 13:14:00 2017 -0800 |
| tree | acc4d0467da6cc84066c781b7a739562e3497c06 | |
| parent | 4539c218c362f2c1a26c61b1aa57af10342fd5a4 [diff] |
remote helpers: avoid blind fall-back to ".git" when setting GIT_DIR To push from or fetch to the current repository, remote helpers need to know what repository that is. Accordingly, Git sets the GIT_DIR environment variable to the path to the current repository when invoking remote helpers. There is a special case it does not handle: "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" can be run to inspect a remote repository without being run from any local repository. GIT_DIR is not useful in this scenario: - if we are not in a repository, we don't need to set GIT_DIR to override an existing GIT_DIR value from the environment. If GIT_DIR is present then we would be in a repository if it were valid and would have called die() if it weren't. - not setting GIT_DIR may cause a helper to do the usual discovery walk to find the repository. But we know we're not in one, or we would have found it ourselves. So in the worst case it may expend a little extra effort to try to find a repository and fail (for example, remote-curl would do this to try to find repository-level configuration). So leave GIT_DIR unset in this case. This makes GIT_DIR easier to understand for remote helper authors and makes transport code less of a special case for repository discovery. Noticed using b1ef400e (setup_git_env: avoid blind fall-back to ".git", 2016-10-20) from 'next': $ cd /tmp $ git ls-remote https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git fatal: BUG: setup_git_env called without repository Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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