Hi Vitali,
[please avoid top-posting on this mailing list]
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Vitali Lovich wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 7:50 PM Vitali Lovich <vlov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Typically git rev-parse --show-toplevel prints the folder containing
> > the .git folder regardless what subdirectory one is in. One exception
> > I have found is that if one is within the context of git rebase --exec
> > then show-toplevel always just prints the current directory it's
> > running from.
> >
> > Repro (starting with cwd within git project):
> > > (cd xdiff; git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
> > ... path to git repository
> > > git rebase -i 18404434bf406f6a6f892ed73320c5cf9cc187dd
> > # Stop at some commit for editing
> > > (cd xdiff; git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
> > ... path to git repository
> > > git rebase 18404434bf406f6a6f892ed73320c5cf9cc187dd -x "(cd xdiff; git
> > > rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
> > ... path to git repository/xdiff !!!
> >
> > This seems like incorrect behaviour to me since it's a weird
> > inconsistency (even with other rebase contexts) & the documentation
> > says "Show the absolute path of the top-level directory." with no
> > caveats.
>
> Sorry. Forgot to include the git versions I tested with (2.13.1,
> 2.17.0, 2.18.0)
This is actually not so much a bug in `rebase` as in `rev-parse
--show-top-level`:
$ GIT_DIR=$PWD/.git git -C xdiff rev-parse --show-toplevel
C:/git-sdk-64/usr/src/git/xdiff
Ciao,
Johannes
