Re: [PATCH] Handle failure of core.worktree to identify the working directory.

[Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:11:21AM +0000, Pat Thoyts wrote:
> Commit 21985a11 'git-gui: handle non-standard worktree locations' attempts
> to use either GIT_WORK_TREE or core.worktree to set the _gitworktree
> variable but these may not be set which leads to a failure to launch
> gitk to review history. Use _gitdir to set the location for a standard
> git layout where the parent of the .git directory is the working tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

Now it works, thanks.

Tested-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>

> >Git-gui as shipped with todays git.git master is a bit broken:
> >
> >in git.git master (v1.7.0-29-g6d81630), try running:
> >
> >    $ git gui blame xdiff-interface.h
> >
> >Then select first line 'd9ea d9ea   1 #ifndef XDIFF_INTERFACE_H', right
> >click to popup context menu, select "Show History Context" -->
> >
> >--> git gui errors with:
> >
> >    "Error: couldn't change working directory to "": no ...
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Kirill
> 
>  git-gui.sh |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
> index 8996d2d..ec81b15 100755
> --- a/git-gui.sh
> +++ b/git-gui.sh
> @@ -1158,6 +1158,9 @@ apply_config
>  # try to set work tree from environment, falling back to core.worktree
>  if {[catch { set _gitworktree $env(GIT_WORK_TREE) }]} {
>  	set _gitworktree [get_config core.worktree]
> +	if {$_gitworktree eq ""} {
> +		set _gitworktree [file dirname [file normalize $_gitdir]]
> +	}
>  }
>  if {$_prefix ne {}} {
>  	if {$_gitworktree eq {}} {