From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Gregor Zattler <grfz@gmx.de>
Cc: 5344@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5344: 23.1.91; bug/wish: vc does not honour GIT_DIR / GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:46:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2w5j6bk.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wobpfnpq.fsf@len.workgroup> (Gregor Zattler's message of "Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:44:33 +0100")
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Gregor Zattler <grfz@gmx.de> writes:
> Actually git does it the other way around: It uses the values of
> the environment variables even if there is a .git directory
> further up in the file system hierarchy. So it's not a fall
> back but it overrides the default.
The vc functions in Emacs sets GIT_DIR to "" before calling git, so in
vc mode it would be a fallback.
> When I wrote this bug report and later the tiny patch, what I
> wanted was to edit dotfiles with emacsclient from the terminal
> command line in terminal frames. But in several terminals there
> are several shells with possibly different GIT_DIR/GIR_WORK_TREE
> environment variables.
>
> But working with emacsclient there is only one emacs server and
> therefore only one pair of GIT_DIR/GIR_WORK_TREE variables.
>
> To work with git from the command line with emacsclient the
> environment variables would have to be frame local.
>
> This is where I stuck.
>
> Therefore nowadays I'm back to a single ~/.git directory, not
> using the environment variables any more. And I'm working with
> magit nowadays. Magit also does not support the
> GIT_DIR/GIR_WORK_TREE environment variables.
>
> There are interesting discussions on this topic here:
> https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2939#issuecomment-271186636
> and here: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/460
>
> These are attempts to solve the pu:
> https://gitlab.com/stepnem/vcsh-el
> https://github.com/vanicat/magit-vcsh
It seems like providing a simple alist of directories/git repos would do
the trick in vc-dir, wouldn't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-24 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-09 1:49 bug#5344: 23.1.91; bug/wish: vc does not honour GIT_DIR / GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables Gregor Zattler
2010-01-09 19:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-01-10 11:23 ` Gregor Zattler
2010-01-10 22:39 ` Gregor Zattler
2019-11-23 13:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <87wobpfnpq.fsf@len.workgroup>
2019-11-24 21:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-12-01 10:53 ` Gregor Zattler
2019-12-01 16:37 ` Robert Pluim
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