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From: =?UTF-8?q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n=20Th=C3=A1i=20Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=20Duy?=
<pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:58:09 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] clone: allow to clone from .git file
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Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
builtin/clone.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
t/t5601-clone.sh | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index f579794d9a9..ec57f3dbe4a 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -101,9 +101,26 @@ static char *get_repo_path(const char *repo, int *is_bundle)
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(suffix); i++) {
const char *path;
path = mkpath("%s%s", repo, suffix[i]);
- if (is_directory(path)) {
+ if (stat(path, &st))
+ continue;
+ if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
*is_bundle = 0;
return xstrdup(absolute_path(path));
+ } else if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode) && st.st_size > 8) {
+ /* Is it a "gitfile"? */
+ char signature[8];
+ int len, fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd < 0)
+ continue;
+ len = read_in_full(fd, signature, 8);
+ close(fd);
+ if (len != 8 || strncmp(signature, "gitdir: ", 8))
+ continue;
+ path = read_gitfile(path);
+ if (path) {
+ *is_bundle = 0;
+ return xstrdup(absolute_path(path));
+ }
}
}
diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
index 151ea531bdf..501bd3fb6cc 100755
--- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ test_expect_success 'clone separate gitdir: output' '
test_cmp expected dst/.git
'
+test_expect_success 'clone from .git file' '
+ git clone dst/.git dst2
+'
+
test_expect_success 'clone separate gitdir where target already exists' '
rm -rf dst &&
test_must_fail git clone --separate-git-dir realgitdir src dst