Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu] configure: Enable werror for git worktrees

[Thomas Huth]

On 28/02/2019 08.14, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 08:01:53AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 28/02/2019 06.00, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 03:35:03PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>> The configure script checks multiple times whether it works in a git
>>>> repository and it does this by "test -e "${source_path}/.git" in 4 cases
>>>> but in one case where it tries to enable werror "-d" is used there which
>>>> fails on git worktrees as .git is a file then and not a directory.
>>
>> That confused me. What is a "git worktree" where .git is a file? So far
>> .git was always a directory here...?
> 
> git worktree --help

Thanks a lot for the explanation, now it makes sense, indeed.

Anyway, my local git from RHEL7 is obviously too old for that:

$ git worktree --help
No manual entry for gitworktree
$ git worktree
git: 'worktree' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
$ git --version
git version 1.8.3.1

 Thomas