Reinstate the old behaviour when GIT_DIR is set and GIT_WORK_TREE is unset

The old behaviour was to unilaterally default to the cwd is the work tree
when GIT_DIR was set, but GIT_WORK_TREE wasn't, no matter if we are inside
the GIT_DIR, or if GIT_DIR is actually something like ../../../.git.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index b55b82c99e..06004f1587 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -189,53 +189,21 @@ int is_inside_work_tree(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * If no worktree was given, and we are outside of a default work tree,
- * now is the time to set it.
- *
- * In other words, if the user calls git with something like
- *
- *	git --git-dir=/some/where/else/.git bla
- *
- * default to /some/where/else as working directory; if the specified
- * git-dir does not end in "/.git", the cwd is used as working directory.
+ * set_work_tree() is only ever called if you set GIT_DIR explicitely.
+ * The old behaviour (which we retain here) is to set the work tree root
+ * to the cwd, unless overridden by the config, the command line, or
+ * GIT_WORK_TREE.
  */
-const char *set_work_tree(const char *dir)
+static const char *set_work_tree(const char *dir)
 {
-	char dir_buffer[PATH_MAX], *rel = NULL;
-	static char buffer[PATH_MAX + 1];
-	int len, suffix_len = strlen(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT) + 1;
-
-	/* strip the variable 'dir' of the postfix "/.git" if it has it */
-	len = strlen(dir);
-	if (len > suffix_len &&
-	    !strcmp(dir + len - suffix_len, "/" DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT)) {
-		if ((len - suffix_len) >= sizeof(dir_buffer))
-			die("directory name too long");
-		memcpy(dir_buffer, dir, len - suffix_len);
-		dir_buffer[len - suffix_len] = '\0';
-
-		/* are we inside the default work tree? */
-		rel = get_relative_cwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer), dir_buffer);
-	}
+	char buffer[PATH_MAX + 1];
 
-	/* if rel is set, the cwd is _not_ the current working tree */
-	if (rel && *rel) {
-		if (!is_absolute_path(dir))
-			set_git_dir(make_absolute_path(dir));
-		dir = dir_buffer;
-		if (chdir(dir))
-			die("cannot chdir to %s: %s", dir, strerror(errno));
-		else
-			strcat(rel, "/");
-		inside_git_dir = 0;
-	} else {
-		rel = NULL;
-		dir = getcwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
-	}
-	git_work_tree_cfg = xstrdup(dir);
+	if (!getcwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer)))
+		die ("Could not get the current working directory");
+	git_work_tree_cfg = xstrdup(buffer);
 	inside_work_tree = 1;
 
-	return rel;
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 /*