Make "git clone" a lot more user-friendly

[git.git] / git-clone-script

diff --git a/git-clone-script b/git-clone-script
index 4f80ade..1969742 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-clone-script
+++ b/git-clone-script
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ usage() {
        exit 1
 }
 
+get_repo_base() {
+       (cd "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2> /dev/null
+}
+
 use_local=no
 while
        case "$#,$1" in
@@ -22,7 +26,15 @@ do
        shift
 done
 
+# Turn the source into an absolute path if
+# it is local
 repo="$1"
+local=no
+if base=$(get_repo_base "$repo"); then
+       repo="$base"
+       local=yes
+fi
+
 dir="$2"
 mkdir "$dir" &&
 D=$(
@@ -31,8 +43,8 @@ D=$(
 test -d "$D" || usage
 
 # We do local magic only when the user tells us to.
-case "$use_local" in
-yes)
+case "$local,$use_local" in
+yes,yes)
        ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
                repo="$repo/.git"
                ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {