called as methods of the object are then executed in the context of the
repository.
-TODO: In the future, we might also do
+Part of the "repository state" is also information about path to the attached
+working copy (unless you work with a bare repository). You can also navigate
+inside of the working copy using the C<wc_chdir()> method. (Note that
+the repository object is self-contained and will not change working directory
+of your process.)
- my $subdir = $repo->subdir('Documentation');
- # Gets called in the subdirectory context:
- $subdir->command('status');
+TODO: In the future, we might also do
my $remoterepo = $repo->remote_repository (Name => 'cogito', Branch => 'master');
$remoterepo ||= Git->remote_repository ('http://git.or.cz/cogito.git/');
my @refs = $remoterepo->refs();
-So far, all functions just die if anything goes wrong. If you don't want that,
-make appropriate provisions to catch the possible deaths. Better error recovery
-mechanisms will be provided in the future.
-
Currently, the module merely wraps calls to external Git tools. In the future,
it will provide a much faster way to interact with Git by linking directly
to libgit. This should be completely opaque to the user, though (performance
use Carp qw(carp croak); # but croak is bad - throw instead
use Error qw(:try);
+use Cwd qw(abs_path);
require XSLoader;
XSLoader::load('Git', $VERSION);
B<WorkingCopy> - Path to the associated working copy; not strictly required
as many commands will happily crunch on a bare repository.
-B<Directory> - Path to the Git working directory in its usual setup. This
-is just for convenient setting of both C<Repository> and C<WorkingCopy>
-at once: If the directory as a C<.git> subdirectory, C<Repository> is pointed
-to the subdirectory and the directory is assumed to be the working copy.
-If the directory does not have the subdirectory, C<WorkingCopy> is left
-undefined and C<Repository> is pointed to the directory itself.
+B<WorkingSubdir> - Subdirectory in the working copy to work inside.
+Just left undefined if you do not want to limit the scope of operations.
+
+B<Directory> - Path to the Git working directory in its usual setup.
+The C<.git> directory is searched in the directory and all the parent
+directories; if found, C<WorkingCopy> is set to the directory containing
+it and C<Repository> to the C<.git> directory itself. If no C<.git>
+directory was found, the C<Directory> is assumed to be a bare repository,
+C<Repository> is set to point at it and C<WorkingCopy> is left undefined.
+If the C<$GIT_DIR> environment variable is set, things behave as expected
+as well.
You should not use both C<Directory> and either of C<Repository> and
C<WorkingCopy> - the results of that are undefined.
field.
Calling the constructor with no options whatsoever is equivalent to
-calling it with C<< Directory => '.' >>.
+calling it with C<< Directory => '.' >>. In general, if you are building
+a standard porcelain command, simply doing C<< Git->repository() >> should
+do the right thing and setup the object to reflect exactly where the user
+is right now.
=cut
} else {
%opts = @args;
}
+ }
+
+ if (not defined $opts{Repository} and not defined $opts{WorkingCopy}) {
+ $opts{Directory} ||= '.';
+ }
+
+ if ($opts{Directory}) {
+ -d $opts{Directory} or throw Error::Simple("Directory not found: $!");
+
+ my $search = Git->repository(WorkingCopy => $opts{Directory});
+ my $dir;
+ try {
+ $dir = $search->command_oneline(['rev-parse', '--git-dir'],
+ STDERR => 0);
+ } catch Git::Error::Command with {
+ $dir = undef;
+ };
- if ($opts{Directory}) {
- -d $opts{Directory} or throw Error::Simple("Directory not found: $!");
- if (-d $opts{Directory}."/.git") {
- # TODO: Might make this more clever
- $opts{WorkingCopy} = $opts{Directory};
- $opts{Repository} = $opts{Directory}."/.git";
- } else {
- $opts{Repository} = $opts{Directory};
+ if ($dir) {
+ $opts{Repository} = abs_path($dir);
+
+ # If --git-dir went ok, this shouldn't die either.
+ my $prefix = $search->command_oneline('rev-parse', '--show-prefix');
+ $dir = abs_path($opts{Directory}) . '/';
+ if ($prefix) {
+ if (substr($dir, -length($prefix)) ne $prefix) {
+ throw Error::Simple("rev-parse confused me - $dir does not have trailing $prefix");
+ }
+ substr($dir, -length($prefix)) = '';
}
- delete $opts{Directory};
+ $opts{WorkingCopy} = $dir;
+ $opts{WorkingSubdir} = $prefix;
+
+ } else {
+ # A bare repository? Let's see...
+ $dir = $opts{Directory};
+
+ unless (-d "$dir/refs" and -d "$dir/objects" and -e "$dir/HEAD") {
+ # Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
+ throw Error::Simple('fatal: Not a git repository');
+ }
+ my $search = Git->repository(Repository => $dir);
+ try {
+ $search->command('symbolic-ref', 'HEAD');
+ } catch Git::Error::Command with {
+ # Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
+ throw Error::Simple('fatal: Not a git repository');
+ }
+
+ $opts{Repository} = abs_path($dir);
}
+
+ delete $opts{Directory};
}
$self = { opts => \%opts };
my ($fh, $ctx) = command_output_pipe(@_);
my $line = <$fh>;
- chomp $line;
+ defined $line and chomp $line;
try {
_cmd_close($fh, $ctx);
} catch Git::Error::Command with {
=item exec_path ()
-Return path to the git sub-command executables (the same as
+Return path to the Git sub-command executables (the same as
C<git --exec-path>). Useful mostly only internally.
Implementation of this function is very fast; no external command calls
# Implemented in Git.xs.
+=item repo_path ()
+
+Return path to the git repository. Must be called on a repository instance.
+
+=cut
+
+sub repo_path { $_[0]->{opts}->{Repository} }
+
+
+=item wc_path ()
+
+Return path to the working copy. Must be called on a repository instance.
+
+=cut
+
+sub wc_path { $_[0]->{opts}->{WorkingCopy} }
+
+
+=item wc_subdir ()
+
+Return path to the subdirectory inside of a working copy. Must be called
+on a repository instance.
+
+=cut
+
+sub wc_subdir { $_[0]->{opts}->{WorkingSubdir} ||= '' }
+
+
+=item wc_chdir ( SUBDIR )
+
+Change the working copy subdirectory to work within. The C<SUBDIR> is
+relative to the working copy root directory (not the current subdirectory).
+Must be called on a repository instance attached to a working copy
+and the directory must exist.
+
+=cut
+
+sub wc_chdir {
+ my ($self, $subdir) = @_;
+
+ $self->wc_path()
+ or throw Error::Simple("bare repository");
+
+ -d $self->wc_path().'/'.$subdir
+ or throw Error::Simple("subdir not found: $!");
+ # Of course we will not "hold" the subdirectory so anyone
+ # can delete it now and we will never know. But at least we tried.
+
+ $self->{opts}->{WorkingSubdir} = $subdir;
+}
+
+
=item hash_object ( FILENAME [, TYPE ] )
=item hash_object ( FILEHANDLE [, TYPE ] )
sub _cmd_exec {
my ($self, @args) = @_;
if ($self) {
- $self->{opts}->{Repository} and $ENV{'GIT_DIR'} = $self->{opts}->{Repository};
- $self->{opts}->{WorkingCopy} and chdir($self->{opts}->{WorkingCopy});
+ $self->repo_path() and $ENV{'GIT_DIR'} = $self->repo_path();
+ $self->wc_path() and chdir($self->wc_path());
+ $self->wc_subdir() and chdir($self->wc_subdir());
}
_execv_git_cmd(@args);
die "exec failed: $!";