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Dear emacs developers,

I use bare git repositories for version contol of some dotfiles.[1] This
means that the repository ist *not* in a .git directory which is part of
the working directorys hirarchy.  Instead the environment variable
GIT_DIR indicates the location of the repository and the environment
variable GIT_WORK_TREE indicates the working directory.  But in emacs/vc
these dotfiles do not show up as version controlled, even when the emacs
session inherited the correct GIT_* environment variables:

   ~$ export GIT_DIR=~/.fgits/emacs.git
   ~$ export GIT_WORK_TREE="$GIT_DIR/$(git config --get core.worktree)"
   ~$ printenv|grep GIT
   GIT_DIR=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git
   GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git/../../

There are several files/directories under ~/.emacs.d, but *no* .git
directory::

   ~$ ls .emacs.d/
   ~/.emacs.d$ ls -A
   _abbrev_defs      _backup  elpa         _emms-history  history
   init.el            _recentf           todo-top
   _abbrev_defs.old  _diary   _emacs.bmk   games          _ido.last
   lisp               _remember_backups  update-org.sh
   auto-save-list    elisp    _emacs_orig  _gnus
   image-dired  .org-id-locations  todo-do

There is also no ~/.git

   ~/$ ls -l ~/.git
   ls: cannot access /home/grfz/.git: No such file or directory

but git works fine:

   cd ~/.emacs.d

   ~/.emacs.d$ git status
   # On branch master
   # Changed but not updated:
   #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
   #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in
   #   working directory)
   #
   #       modified:   init.el
   #
   no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Or:

   ~/.emacs.d$ git log -n 1
   commit ffa6f03211b7234533d060886614b96ea59c30f0
   Author: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@HIDDEN>
   Date:   Thu Jan 7 22:38:23 2010 +0100
   
       new german aspell directory name; show max buffer size; minor
       changes
   

This are the files in ~/.emacs.d which are version controlled:

   ~/.emacs.d$ git ls-files
   _abbrev_defs
   _diary
   _gnus
   init.el

Now I start emacs:

   emacs -Q -n 

and evaluate

   (getenv "GIT_DIR")

this shows 

   "/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git"

in the echo area, while 

   (getenv "GIT_WORK_TREE")

gives

   "/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git/../../"

That's o.k.  Now I ^X f visit ~/.emacs.d/init.el but no
indication that init.el is version controlled shows up in the
mode line: 

   -UUU:----F1  init.el        Top L1     (Emacs-Lisp)----------------------------------------------------------

Now I type ^X v d (vc-dir), emacs asks 

   VC status for directory: ~/.emacs.d/

when I confirm this, I get the message

   No VC backend is responsible for /home/grfz/.emacs.d/

in the echo area.



vc does not support the specific git feature of detatched repositories.  
Therefore I file this bugreport / wishlist bug:  IMHO vc should
support this feature.  In order to do so vc should honour the
environment variables GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE respectively and
utilize the git ls-files directory.  git gives
precedence to these environment variables: even if there is a
.git directory with reository it will be ignored if the
environment variables indicate other locations for repository and
working directory.  I think vc should behave in the same way.




Thanx for your attention, 
Gregor

[1] 
These "fake bare repos" are created like this:
   export GIT_DIR=~/.fgits/emacs.git 
   git init --bare 
   git config core.bare false 
   git config core.worktree ../../ 
   git config status.showUntrackedFiles no
see http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/vcs-home/2008-August/000175.html
for an explanation of this way of keeping dotfiles under version
control. 



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For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.1.91/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.5)
 of 2010-01-06 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20100106-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1.91/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1.91/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: POSIX
  value of $LC_MONETARY: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_TIME: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
( g e t e n v SPC " G I T _ D I R " ) C-x C-e <return> 
M-x e m a <tab> b <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e 
p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
"/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git"
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/23.1.91/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs/23.1.91/site-lisp/emms/tq hides /usr/share/emacs/23.1.91/lisp/emacs-lisp/tq

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail regexp-opt ecomplete rfc822 mml
mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse
rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util
netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock
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Gregor Zattler <grfz@HIDDEN> writes:

  > Dear emacs developers,
  > 
  > I use bare git repositories for version contol of some dotfiles.[1] This
  > means that the repository ist *not* in a .git directory which is part of
  > the working directorys hirarchy.  Instead the environment variable
  > GIT_DIR indicates the location of the repository and the environment
  > variable GIT_WORK_TREE indicates the working directory.  But in emacs/vc
  > these dotfiles do not show up as version controlled, even when the emacs
  > session inherited the correct GIT_* environment variables:
  > 
  >    ~$ export GIT_DIR=~/.fgits/emacs.git
  >    ~$ export GIT_WORK_TREE="$GIT_DIR/$(git config --get core.worktree)"
  >    ~$ printenv|grep GIT
  >    GIT_DIR=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git
  >    GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git/../../

If you want to add support for this, it's quite likely that the only
thing that needs to be changed is the vc-git-root in
emacs/lisp/vc-git.el.




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Hi Dan,
* Dan Nicolaescu <dann@HIDDEN> [09. Jan. 2010]:
> Gregor Zattler <grfz@HIDDEN> writes:
>   > I use bare git repositories for version contol of some dotfiles.[1] This
>   > means that the repository ist *not* in a .git directory which is part of
>   > the working directorys hirarchy.  Instead the environment variable
>   > GIT_DIR indicates the location of the repository and the environment
>   > variable GIT_WORK_TREE indicates the working directory.  But in emacs/vc
>   > these dotfiles do not show up as version controlled, even when the emacs
>   > session inherited the correct GIT_* environment variables:
>   > 
>   >    ~$ export GIT_DIR=~/.fgits/emacs.git
>   >    ~$ export GIT_WORK_TREE="$GIT_DIR/$(git config --get core.worktree)"
>   >    ~$ printenv|grep GIT
>   >    GIT_DIR=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git
>   >    GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git/../../
> 
> If you want to add support for this, it's quite likely that the only
> thing that needs to be changed is the vc-git-root in
> emacs/lisp/vc-git.el.

Sorry I'm not capable to do this.  That's the reason I called it
a wish list bug.

Because of your suggestion I have fiddled around a bit and found
a workaround which somehow supports your suggestion::

I initilalised an empty repository ~/.git.  Now vc "considers"
my whole home directory as potentially version controlled and
interacts with git.  Git in turn honours the environment
variables and voila:  many of the vc-commands are working now.
Since I do not want to use this ~/.git I did a 
   chmod -R a-w ~/.git
in order to prevent accidentially using this repository in stead
of one of the detached ones.


Thanks for the hint.
Gregor




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tags patch
thanks

Hi Dan,
* Dan Nicolaescu <dann@HIDDEN> [09. Jan. 2010]:
> If you want to add support for this, it's quite likely that the only
> thing that needs to be changed is the vc-git-root in
> emacs/lisp/vc-git.el.

O.K. thanks to your pointer this was really easy.  I don't know
if there are negative side effects or if it's a complete solution
to the problem but it works for me.  The patch does not normalize
the resulting path, though.  Don't know if this is a problem.
For instance (vc-git-root "~/.emacs.d/init.el") gives me:
"/home/grfz/.fgits/emacs.git/../../"

I don't know if other version controll systems have similar means
of detaching repository and working directory.  Then vc-find-root
would perhaps be a better place to patch.  But thats beyond me.

Thank you *very* much.

Now I have to learn how to use emacsclients environment for this
purpose instead of the daemon ones.

Gregor


--- vc-git.el	2010-01-10 22:51:23.000000000 +0100
+++ my-vc-git.el	2010-01-10 23:24:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -777,7 +777,9 @@
 (defun vc-git-extra-status-menu () vc-git-extra-menu-map)
 
 (defun vc-git-root (file)
-  (vc-find-root file ".git"))
+(if (getenv "GIT_DIR") 
+  (getenv "GIT_WORK_TREE")
+ (vc-find-root file ".git")))
 
 (defun vc-git-toggle-signoff ()
   (interactive)




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Gregor Zattler <grfz@HIDDEN> writes:

>  (defun vc-git-root (file)
> -  (vc-find-root file ".git"))
> +(if (getenv "GIT_DIR") 
> +  (getenv "GIT_WORK_TREE")
> + (vc-find-root file ".git")))

As far as I can tell by skimming vc-git.el, functionality like this has
not been added during the intervening years.  The use case it:

> I use bare git repositories for version contol of some dotfiles.[1] This
> means that the repository ist *not* in a .git directory which is part of
> the working directorys hirarchy.  Instead the environment variable
> GIT_DIR indicates the location of the repository and the environment
> variable GIT_WORK_TREE indicates the working directory.

We wouldn't want to add this in the form suggested above, but it does
sound like a useful feature, if I understand it correctly.  But I don't
quite see how you'd tie a specific location to a specific GIT_DIR value,
so I don't see how this would work in general.  Perhaps fall back on
GIT_DIR/GIR_WORK_TREE if vc-git-root returns nil would be reasonable?

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