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bug#5344: 23.1.91; bug/wish: vc does not honour GIT_DIR / GIT_WORK_TREE
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#5344: 23.1.91; bug/wish: vc does not honour GIT_DIR / GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables |
Date: |
Sat, 9 Jan 2010 11:29:09 -0800 (PST) |
Gregor Zattler <grfz@gmx.de> writes:
> Dear emacs developers,
>
> I use bare git repositories for version contol of some dotfiles.[1] This
> means that the repository ist *not* in a .git directory which is part of
> the working directorys hirarchy. Instead the environment variable
> GIT_DIR indicates the location of the repository and the environment
> variable GIT_WORK_TREE indicates the working directory. But in emacs/vc
> these dotfiles do not show up as version controlled, even when the emacs
> session inherited the correct GIT_* environment variables:
>
> ~$ export GIT_DIR=~/.fgits/emacs.git
> ~$ export GIT_WORK_TREE="$GIT_DIR/$(git config --get core.worktree)"
> ~$ printenv|grep GIT
> GIT_DIR=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git
> GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git/../../
If you want to add support for this, it's quite likely that the only
thing that needs to be changed is the vc-git-root in
emacs/lisp/vc-git.el.