Fix gitdir detection when in subdir of gitdir

If the current working directory is a subdirectory of the gitdir (e.g.
<repo>/.git/refs/), then setup_git_directory_gently() will climb its
parent directories until it finds itself in a gitdir.  However, no
matter how many parent directories it climbs, it sets
'GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT' to ".", which is obviously wrong.

This behaviour affected at least 'git rev-parse --git-dir' and hence
caused some errors in bash completion (e.g. customized command prompt
when on a detached head and completion of refs).

To fix this, we set the absolute path of the found gitdir instead.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 78a8041..dd7c039 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -456,7 +456,11 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
                        inside_git_dir = 1;
                        if (!work_tree_env)
                                inside_work_tree = 0;
-                       setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, ".", 1);
+                       if (offset != len) {
+                               cwd[offset] = '\0';
+                               setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, cwd, 1);
+                       } else
+                               setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, ".", 1);
                        check_repository_format_gently(nongit_ok);
                        return NULL;
                }

diff --git a/t/t1501-worktree.sh b/t/t1501-worktree.sh
index c039ee3..1bcadf3 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t1501-worktree.sh
+++ b/t/t1501-worktree.sh
@@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ cd sub/dir || exit 1
 test_rev_parse 'in repo.git/sub/dir' false true true sub/dir/
 cd ../../../.. || exit 1
 
+test_expect_success 'detecting gitdir when cwd is in a subdir of gitdir' '
+       (expected=$(pwd)/repo.git &&
+        cd repo.git/refs &&
+        unset GIT_DIR &&
+        test "$expected" = "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)")
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'repo finds its work tree' '
        (cd repo.git &&
         : > work/sub/dir/untracked &&