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git-clone: don't get fooled by $PWD
authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Thu, 10 May 2007 00:11:15 +0000 (17:11 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Thu, 10 May 2007 20:26:14 +0000 (13:26 -0700)
commitc2f599e09fd0496413d1744b5b89b9b5c223555d
tree7a1ea1e4ad23972c12bef9281edf9034cfe16640
parentc69f4050958b648acd668b37dc77772e05148a97
git-clone: don't get fooled by $PWD

If you have /home/me/git symlink pointing at /pub/git/mine,
trying to clone from /pub/git/his/ using relative path would not
work as expected:

$ cd /home/me
        $ cd git
        $ ls ../
        his    mine
        $ git clone -l -s -n ../his/stuff.git

This is because "cd ../his/stuff.git" done inside git-clone to
check if the repository is local is confused by $PWD, which is
set to /home/me, and tries to go to /home/his/stuff.git which is
different from /pub/git/his/stuff.git.

We could probably say "set -P" (or "cd -P") instead, if we know
the shell is POSIX, but the way the patch is coded is probably
more portable.

[jc: this is updated with Andy Whitcroft's improvements]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-clone.sh