Re: [PATCH 2/3] vcs_info/cvs: set vcs_comm[basedir] in VCS_INFO_detect_cvs

["Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aleksandr Mezin wrote on Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:28 +00:00:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:26 AM Aleksandr Mezin
> <mezin.alexander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 2:17 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Two, as I pointed out in reply to an offlist response, the existence of
> > > $GIT_DIR and $GIT_WORK_TREE means that the two VCS's basedirs need not
> > > be in a parent dir – subdir relationship with each other; they can be
> > > /foo/bar and /foo/baz.
> >
> > How is it possible?

% cd "$(mktemp -d)"
% hg init foo
% git init bar
% cd foo
[shows hg info]
% export GIT_WORK_TREE=${PWD/foo/bar} GIT_DIR=${PWD/foo/bar}/.git
[shows git info]
% 

> > in a git repository
> >
> >     $ GIT_WORK_TREE=../other-dir git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree
> >     false
> >
> > Work tree root should be a parent of cwd, otherwise `rev-parse
> > --is-inside-work-tree` returns false -> git repository not detected.
> > And there is only one path from cwd to the root -> all parents of cwd
> > are parents or subdirs to each other.
> 
> I meant "there is only one path from cwd to /" in the last sentence.
>

Cheers,

Daniel