Dereference the environment variable before using it.
Signed-off-by: NTommi Virtanen <tv@inoi.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

After figuring out the GIT_DIR location, make sure the
repository is of the right vintage, by calling
check_repository_format(). .
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This adds the repository format version code, first done by
Martin Atukunda.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

setup_git_directory() always trusted what the user told where
GIT_DIR was, and assumed that is a valid .git/ directory.  This
commit changes it to at least do the same level validation as
is_toplevel_directory() does -- has refs/, has objects/ unless
GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY is set, and has valid HEAD symlink or
symref.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This adds the counterpart of git-update-ref that lets you read
and create "symbolic refs".  By default it uses a symbolic link
to represent ".git/HEAD -> refs/heads/master", but it can be compiled
to use the textfile symbolic ref.

The places that did 'readlink .git/HEAD' and 'ln -s refs/heads/blah
.git/HEAD' have been converted to use new git-symbolic-ref command, so
that they can deal with either implementation.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junio@twinsun.com>

This is a long overdue clean-up to the code for parsing and passing
diff options.  It also tightens some constness issues.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

We have deprecated the old environment variable names for quite a
while and now it's time to remove them.  Gone are:

    SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORIES AUTHOR_DATE AUTHOR_EMAIL AUTHOR_NAME
    COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Inspired by a report by Kalle Valo, this changes git-sh-setup-script and
the "setup_git_directory()" function to test that $GIT_DIR/HEAD is a
symlink, since a number of core git features depend on that these days.

We used to allow a regular file there, but git-fsck-cache has been
complaining about that for a while, and anything that uses branches
depends on the HEAD file being a symlink, so let's just encode that as a
fundamental requirement.

Before, a non-symlink HEAD file would appear to work, but have subtle bugs
like not having the HEAD show up as a valid reference (because it wasn't
under "refs"). Now, we will complain loudly, and the user can fix it up
trivially instead of getting strange behaviour.

This also removes the tests for "$GIT_DIR" and "$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY"
being directories, since the other tests will implicitly test for that
anyway (ie the tests for HEAD, refs and 00 would fail).
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Not all programs necessarily have a pathspec array of pathnames, some of
them (like git-update-cache) want to do things one file at a time.  So
export the single-path interface too.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This fixes up usage of ".." (without an ending slash) and "." (with or
without the ending slash) in the git diff family.

It also fixes pathspec matching for the case of an empty pathspec, since a
"." in the top-level directory (or enough ".." under subdirectories) will
result in an empty pathspec. We used to not match it against anything, but
it should in fact match everything.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

We may not actually have a valid HEAD at all times, so relax the validity 
tests for a .git subdirectory accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

We always show the diff as an absolute path, but pathnames to diff are
taken relative to the current working directory (and if no pathnames are
given, the default ends up being all of the current working directory).

Note that "../xyz" also works, so you can do

	cd linux/drivers/char
	git diff ../block

and it will generate a diff of the linux/drivers/block changes.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>