From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:33:53 +0000 (-0700) Subject: GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM: flip the default to stop at filesystem boundaries X-Git-Tag: v1.7.2-rc0~129^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e640551773c9730a47779dfc93155feb092c8e3c;p=git.git GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM: flip the default to stop at filesystem boundaries Regarding the new environment variable, Linus Torvalds writes on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 in : I suspect that it is _very_ unusual to have a source repo that crosses multiple filesystems, and the original reason for this patch-series seems to me to be likely to be more common than that multi-fs case. So having the logic go the other way would seem to match the common case, no? The "crossing filesystem boundary" condition is checked by comparing st_dev field in the result from stat(2). This is slightly worrysome if non-POSIX ports return different values in the field even for directories in the same work tree extracted to the same "filesystem". Erik Faye-Lund confirms that in the msysgit port st_dev is 0, so this should be safe, as "even Windows is safe" ;-) This will affect those who use /.git to cram /etc and /home/me in the same repostiory, /home is mounted from non-root filesystem, and a git operation is done from inside /home/me/src. But that is such a corner case we don't want to give preference over helping people who will benefit from having this default so that they do not have to suffer from slow automounters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index bf1b45eef..aa6208320 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -531,10 +531,14 @@ git so take care if using Cogito etc. (Useful for excluding slow-loading network directories.) 'GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM':: - If set to a true value ("true" or a non-zero integer), stop at - filesystem boundaries when looking for a repository directory. - Like 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES', it will not affect an explicit - respository directory set via 'GIT_DIR' or on the command line. + When run in a directory that does not have ".git" repository + directory, git tries to find such a directory in the parent + directories to find the top of the working tree, but by default it + does not cross filesystem boundaries. This environment variable + can be set to false value ("false" or zero) to tell git not to + stop at filesystem boundaries. Like 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES', + this will not affect an explicit respository directory set via + 'GIT_DIR' or on the command line. git Commits ~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c index 8b911b1a3..d29063349 100644 --- a/setup.c +++ b/setup.c @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok) const char *gitdirenv; const char *gitfile_dir; int len, offset, ceil_offset, root_len; - int current_device = 0, one_filesystem = 0; + int current_device = 0, one_filesystem = 1; struct stat buf; /* @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok) } cwd[offset] = '\0'; die("Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount parent %s)\n" - "Stopping at filesystem boundary since GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM is set.", cwd); + "Stopping at filesystem boundary since GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM is true.", cwd); } } if (chdir("..")) {