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| author | Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> | 2013-04-09 18:22:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-09 15:40:00 -0700 |
| commit | b552b56df2c13885a67ca9ec9f76c21d3b7e2cde (patch) | |
| tree | 5c6d062ab0f30792e6ec97e08d402f85299abd7d /builtin | |
| parent | 0658569eb03e743ef46abd06abd9d0d81d53e72c (diff) | |
| download | git-b552b56df2c13885a67ca9ec9f76c21d3b7e2cde.tar.gz | |
clone: Allow repo using gitfile as a reference
Try reading gitfile files when processing --reference options to clone.
This will allow, among other things, using a submodule checked out with
a recent version of git as a reference repository without requiring the
user to have internal knowledge of submodule layout.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/clone.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c index 0a1e0bf5a4..58fee9874f 100644 --- a/builtin/clone.c +++ b/builtin/clone.c @@ -232,11 +232,21 @@ static void strip_trailing_slashes(char *dir) static int add_one_reference(struct string_list_item *item, void *cb_data) { char *ref_git; + const char *repo; struct strbuf alternate = STRBUF_INIT; - /* Beware: real_path() and mkpath() return static buffer */ + /* Beware: read_gitfile(), real_path() and mkpath() return static buffer */ ref_git = xstrdup(real_path(item->string)); - if (is_directory(mkpath("%s/.git/objects", ref_git))) { + + repo = read_gitfile(ref_git); + if (!repo) + repo = read_gitfile(mkpath("%s/.git", ref_git)); + if (repo) { + free(ref_git); + ref_git = xstrdup(repo); + } + + if (!repo && is_directory(mkpath("%s/.git/objects", ref_git))) { char *ref_git_git = mkpathdup("%s/.git", ref_git); free(ref_git); ref_git = ref_git_git; |