[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 95177] check-webkit-style fails when WebKit is in a Git submodule

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95177





--- Comment #9 from Kevin Funk <kevin.funk at kdab.com>  2012-08-29 11:38:04 PST ---
Just checked again: In Qt5's qtwebkit submodule there is a *file* named ".git" which breaks the assumed behaviour. Reading out the file yields:

$ cat qtwebkit/.git
gitdir: ../.git/modules/qtwebkit

So git rev-parse --git-dir within qtwebkit will refer to "../.git/modules/qtwebkit" (hard-coded).

I am not entirely sure, but I think the reason for doing this is to share the Git history between several submodules (there are at least "qtwebkit" and "qtwebkit1" registered as submodules).

So, Dirk, you are probably right. In normal cases --git-dir works fine, but not with that "separate-git-dir" feature used within qtwebkit.

Reference: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-init.html - '--separate-git-dir'

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