alias: use the early config machinery to expand aliases

Instead of discovering the .git/ directory, reading the config and then
trying to painstakingly reset all the global state if we did not find a
matching alias, let's use the early config machinery instead.

It may look like unnecessary work to discover the .git/ directory in the
early config machinery and then call setup_git_directory_gently() in the
case of a shell alias, repeating the very same discovery *again*.
However, we have to do this as the early config machinery takes pains
*not* to touch any global state, while shell aliases expect a possibly
changed working directory and at least the GIT_PREFIX and GIT_DIR
variables to be set.

This change also fixes a known issue where Git tried to read the pager
config from an incorrect path in a subdirectory of a Git worktree if an
alias expanded to a shell command.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 51 deletions

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 8ff44f081d..58ef570294 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -16,50 +16,6 @@ const char git_more_info_string[] =
 	   "to read about a specific subcommand or concept.");
 
 static int use_pager = -1;
-static char *orig_cwd;
-static const char *env_names[] = {
-	GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT,
-	GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT,
-	GIT_IMPLICIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT,
-	GIT_PREFIX_ENVIRONMENT
-};
-static char *orig_env[4];
-static int save_restore_env_balance;
-
-static void save_env_before_alias(void)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	assert(save_restore_env_balance == 0);
-	save_restore_env_balance = 1;
-	orig_cwd = xgetcwd();
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(env_names); i++) {
-		orig_env[i] = getenv(env_names[i]);
-		orig_env[i] = xstrdup_or_null(orig_env[i]);
-	}
-}
-
-static void restore_env(int external_alias)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	assert(save_restore_env_balance == 1);
-	save_restore_env_balance = 0;
-	if (!external_alias && orig_cwd && chdir(orig_cwd))
-		die_errno("could not move to %s", orig_cwd);
-	free(orig_cwd);
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(env_names); i++) {
-		if (external_alias &&
-		    !strcmp(env_names[i], GIT_PREFIX_ENVIRONMENT))
-			continue;
-		if (orig_env[i]) {
-			setenv(env_names[i], orig_env[i], 1);
-			free(orig_env[i]);
-		} else {
-			unsetenv(env_names[i]);
-		}
-	}
-}
 
 static void commit_pager_choice(void) {
 	switch (use_pager) {
@@ -250,19 +206,18 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 	const char **new_argv;
 	const char *alias_command;
 	char *alias_string;
-	int unused_nongit;
-
-	save_env_before_alias();
-	setup_git_directory_gently(&unused_nongit);
 
 	alias_command = (*argv)[0];
 	alias_string = alias_lookup(alias_command);
 	if (alias_string) {
 		if (alias_string[0] == '!') {
 			struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+			int nongit_ok;
+
+			/* Aliases expect GIT_PREFIX, GIT_DIR etc to be set */
+			setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit_ok);
 
 			commit_pager_choice();
-			restore_env(1);
 
 			child.use_shell = 1;
 			argv_array_push(&child.args, alias_string + 1);
@@ -308,8 +263,6 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 		ret = 1;
 	}
 
-	restore_env(0);
-
 	errno = saved_errno;
 
 	return ret;