contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2
   3 usage () {
   4         echo "usage:" $@
   5         exit 127
   6 }
   7
   8 die () {
   9         echo $@
  10         exit 128
  11 }
  12
  13 if test $# -lt 2 || test $# -gt 3
  14 then
  15         usage "$0 <repository> <new_workdir> [<branch>]"
  16 fi
  17
  18 orig_git=$1
  19 new_workdir=$2
  20 branch=$3
  21
  22 # want to make sure that what is pointed to has a .git directory ...
  23 git_dir=$(cd "$orig_git" 2>/dev/null &&
  24   git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null) ||
  25   die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!"
  26
  27 case "$git_dir" in
  28 .git)
  29         git_dir="$orig_git/.git"
  30         ;;
  31 .)
  32         git_dir=$orig_git
  33         ;;
  34 esac
  35
  36 # don't link to a workdir
  37 if test -L "$git_dir/config"
  38 then
  39         die "\"$orig_git\" is a working directory only, please specify" \
  40                 "a complete repository."
  41 fi
  42
  43 # make sure the the links use full paths
  44 git_dir=$(cd "$git_dir"; pwd)
  45
  46 # create the workdir
  47 mkdir -p "$new_workdir/.git" || die "unable to create \"$new_workdir\"!"
  48
  49 # create the links to the original repo.  explictly exclude index, HEAD and
  50 # logs/HEAD from the list since they are purely related to the current working
  51 # directory, and should not be shared.
  52 for x in config refs logs/refs objects info hooks packed-refs remotes rr-cache
  53 do
  54         case $x in
  55         */*)
  56                 mkdir -p "$(dirname "$new_workdir/.git/$x")"
  57                 ;;
  58         esac
  59         ln -s "$git_dir/$x" "$new_workdir/.git/$x"
  60 done
  61
  62 # now setup the workdir
  63 cd "$new_workdir"
  64 # copy the HEAD from the original repository as a default branch
  65 cp "$git_dir/HEAD" .git/HEAD
  66 # checkout the branch (either the same as HEAD from the original repository, or
  67 # the one that was asked for)
  68 git checkout -f $branch