clone: allow to clone from .git file

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index f579794d9a93a0e55289921f20b8f68b85211ca1..ec57f3dbe4a629b502f7c9e60f89244ef446af4f 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -101,9 +101,26 @@ static char *get_repo_path(const char *repo, int *is_bundle)
        for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(suffix); i++) {
                const char *path;
                path = mkpath("%s%s", repo, suffix[i]);
-               if (is_directory(path)) {
+               if (stat(path, &st))
+                       continue;
+               if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
                        *is_bundle = 0;
                        return xstrdup(absolute_path(path));
+               } else if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode) && st.st_size > 8) {
+                       /* Is it a "gitfile"? */
+                       char signature[8];
+                       int len, fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
+                       if (fd < 0)
+                               continue;
+                       len = read_in_full(fd, signature, 8);
+                       close(fd);
+                       if (len != 8 || strncmp(signature, "gitdir: ", 8))
+                               continue;
+                       path = read_gitfile(path);
+                       if (path) {
+                               *is_bundle = 0;
+                               return xstrdup(absolute_path(path));
+                       }
                }
        }
 

diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
index 151ea531bdfeb5a012e57407749beb4f26de6d2a..501bd3fb6cc9c8795a0ea9570512668abaaa2693 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ test_expect_success 'clone separate gitdir: output' '
        test_cmp expected dst/.git
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'clone from .git file' '
+       git clone dst/.git dst2
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'clone separate gitdir where target already exists' '
        rm -rf dst &&
        test_must_fail git clone --separate-git-dir realgitdir src dst