[PATCH] Add "--git-dir" flag to git-rev-parse

Especially when you're deep inside the git repository, it's not all that
trivial for scripts to figure out where GIT_DIR is if it isn't set.

So add a flag to git-rev-parse to show where it is, since it will have
figured it out anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/rev-parse.c b/rev-parse.c
index 6d723f902aaff806431d5e47916dadba7af18a37..0f5630f95c4dc9ac257ea6c3b2f0e178af667ae5 100644 (file)
--- a/rev-parse.c
+++ b/rev-parse.c
@@ -191,6 +191,22 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                                        puts(prefix);
                                continue;
                        }
                                        puts(prefix);
                                continue;
                        }

+                       if (!strcmp(arg, "--git-dir")) {
+                               const char *gitdir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
+                               static char cwd[PATH_MAX];
+                               if (gitdir) {
+                                       puts(gitdir);
+                                       continue;
+                               }
+                               if (!prefix) {
+                                       puts(".git");
+                                       continue;
+                               }
+                               if (!getcwd(cwd, PATH_MAX))
+                                       die("unable to get current working directory");
+                               printf("%s/.git\n", cwd);
+                               continue;
+                       }

                        if (verify)
                                die("Needed a single revision");
                        show_flag(arg);
                        if (verify)
                                die("Needed a single revision");
                        show_flag(arg);