Vitali Lovich <vlov...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Does it reproduce with older rebase (say from v2.10 days), too? I suspect that the above is because "git rebase" is exporting GIT_DIR without exporting GIT_WORK_TREE. When the former is given without the latter, that tells Git that you are at the top-level of the working tree (if that is not the case, you also export the latter to tell Git where the top-level is). I suspect that "git rebase" before the ongoing piecemeal rewrite to C started (or scripted Porcelain in general) refrained from exporting GIT_DIR to the environment, and if my suspicion is correct, older "git rebase" would behave differently to your test case.
