Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
authorDavid Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Tue, 20 May 2008 06:49:26 +0000 (23:49 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 23 May 2008 21:15:01 +0000 (14:15 -0700)
commit0454dd93bfb2334355ec62fff670d8c6cb3570a1
tree8c0b1ada7cce01e71c2a2bbed0cfd23a26db8ba2
parentd553e737897e8edbbc2092bf345fc58b2dae5251
Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES

Make git recognize a new environment variable that prevents it from
chdir'ing up into specified directories when looking for a GIT_DIR.
Useful for avoiding slow network directories.

For example, I use git in an environment where homedirs are automounted
and "ls /home/nonexistent" takes about 9 seconds.  Setting
GIT_CEILING_DIRS="/home" allows "git help -a" (for bash completion) and
"git symbolic-ref" (for my shell prompt) to run in a reasonable time.

Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git.txt
cache.h
path.c
setup.c
t/t0060-path-utils.sh
t/t1504-ceiling-dirs.sh [new file with mode: 0755]
t/test-lib.sh
test-path-utils.c