David Aguilar <dav...@gmail.com> writes:

> Modern versions of "git submodule" use .git-files to setup the
> submodule directory.  When run in a "git submodule"-created
> repository "git difftool --dir-diff" dies with the following
> error:
>
>       $ git difftool -d HEAD~
>       fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree
>       diff --raw --no-abbrev -z HEAD~: command returned error: 128
>
> core.worktree is relative to the .git directory but the logic
> in find_worktree() does not account for it.
>
> Use `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` to find the worktree so that
> the dir-diff feature works inside a submodule.
>
> Reported-by: Gábor Lipták <gabor.lip...@gmail.com>
> Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehm...@web.de>
> Helped-by: John Keeping <j...@keeping.me.uk>
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <dav...@gmail.com>
> ---

Looks good; thanks.

>  git-difftool.perl | 18 ++----------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
> index e57d3d1..18ca61e 100755
> --- a/git-difftool.perl
> +++ b/git-difftool.perl
> @@ -39,24 +39,10 @@ USAGE
>  
>  sub find_worktree
>  {
> -     my ($repo) = @_;
> -
>       # Git->repository->wc_path() does not honor changes to the working
>       # tree location made by $ENV{GIT_WORK_TREE} or the 'core.worktree'
>       # config variable.
> -     my $worktree;
> -     my $env_worktree = $ENV{GIT_WORK_TREE};
> -     my $core_worktree = Git::config('core.worktree');
> -
> -     if (defined($env_worktree) and (length($env_worktree) > 0)) {
> -             $worktree = $env_worktree;
> -     } elsif (defined($core_worktree) and (length($core_worktree) > 0)) {
> -             $worktree = $core_worktree;
> -     } else {
> -             $worktree = $repo->wc_path();
> -     }
> -
> -     return $worktree;
> +     return Git::command_oneline('rev-parse', '--show-toplevel');
>  }
>  
>  sub print_tool_help
> @@ -418,7 +404,7 @@ sub dir_diff
>       my $rc;
>       my $error = 0;
>       my $repo = Git->repository();
> -     my $workdir = find_worktree($repo);
> +     my $workdir = find_worktree();
>       my ($a, $b, $tmpdir, @worktree) =
>               setup_dir_diff($repo, $workdir, $symlinks);
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