user-manual: update for new default --track behavior

[git.git] / git.c

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 727aabcbbe4d79a2bc2d7e536bfc7a93e9db6f30..25b8274d3ea49b5d9155f35e945122f579ea438d 100644 (file)
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -272,9 +272,14 @@ static int run_command(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
                prefix = setup_git_directory();
        if (p->option & USE_PAGER)
                setup_pager();
-       if ((p->option & NEED_WORK_TREE) &&
-           (!is_inside_work_tree() || is_inside_git_dir()))
-               die("%s must be run in a work tree", p->cmd);
+       if (p->option & NEED_WORK_TREE) {
+               const char *work_tree = get_git_work_tree();
+               const char *git_dir = get_git_dir();
+               if (!is_absolute_path(git_dir))
+                       set_git_dir(make_absolute_path(git_dir));
+               if (!work_tree || chdir(work_tree))
+                       die("%s must be run in a work tree", p->cmd);
+       }
        trace_argv_printf(argv, argc, "trace: built-in: git");
 
        status = p->fn(argc, argv, prefix);
@@ -303,7 +308,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
        const char *cmd = argv[0];
        static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
                { "add", cmd_add, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
-               { "annotate", cmd_annotate, RUN_SETUP | USE_PAGER },
+               { "annotate", cmd_annotate, RUN_SETUP },
                { "apply", cmd_apply },
                { "archive", cmd_archive },
                { "blame", cmd_blame, RUN_SETUP },
@@ -345,7 +350,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
                { "mv", cmd_mv, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
                { "name-rev", cmd_name_rev, RUN_SETUP },
                { "pack-objects", cmd_pack_objects, RUN_SETUP },
-               { "pickaxe", cmd_blame, RUN_SETUP | USE_PAGER },
+               { "pickaxe", cmd_blame, RUN_SETUP },
                { "prune", cmd_prune, RUN_SETUP },
                { "prune-packed", cmd_prune_packed, RUN_SETUP },
                { "push", cmd_push, RUN_SETUP },
@@ -443,11 +448,11 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
        cmd = argv[0];
 
        /*
-        * We search for git commands in the following order:
-        *  - git_exec_path()
-        *  - the path of the "git" command if we could find it
-        *    in $0
-        *  - the regular PATH.
+        * We execute external git command via execv_git_cmd(),
+        * which looks at "--exec-path" option, GIT_EXEC_PATH
+        * environment, and $(gitexecdir) in Makefile while built,
+        * in this order.  For scripted commands, we prepend
+        * the value of the exec_path variable to the PATH.
         */
        if (exec_path)
                prepend_to_path(exec_path, strlen(exec_path));