Improve seeg-gitignore to work around git's issues; still not happy

[code/vcsh.git] / vcsh

diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index 0edfe2fc1ec818e9c3048c3e59344999f380b038..d583dbc1a4ec1d0f8966fed25134f6f7aa497feb 100755 (executable)
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ init() {
        cd "$GIT_WORK_TREE"
        git init
        git config core.worktree     "$GIT_WORK_TREE"
-       git config core.excludesfile ".gitignore.d/$REPO_NAME"
-       touch   "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$REPO_NAME"
-       git add "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$REPO_NAME"
+       git config core.excludesfile ".gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME"
+       touch   "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME"
+       git add "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME"
        verbose "init() end"
 }
 
@@ -84,18 +84,17 @@ if [ "$1" = 'clone' ]; then
        export GIT_DIR="$VCSH_BASE/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.git"
 elif [ "$1" = 'delete' ] ||
      [ "$1" = 'init' ] ||
-     [ "$1" = 'run' ]; then
+     [ "$1" = 'run' ] ||
+     [ "$1" = 'seed-gitignore' ]; then
        [ -z $2 ] && echo "$SELF $1: error: please specify repository to work on" && return 1
-       [ -z $3 ] && echo "$SELF $1 $2: error: please specify a command" && return 1
        export VCSH_COMMAND="$1"
        export VCSH_REPO_NAME="$2"
        export GIT_DIR="$VCSH_BASE/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.git"
        shift 2
        export VCSH_EXTERNAL_COMMAND="$*"
-elif [ "$1" = 'seed-gitignore' ]; then
-       export VCSH_COMMAND="$1"
-       export VCSH_REPO_NAME="$2"
-       export GIT_DIR="$VCSH_BASE/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.git"
+       if [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'run' ]; then
+               [ -z "$VCSH_EXTERNAL_COMMAND" ] && echo "$SELF $1 $2: error: please specify a command" && return 1
+       fi
 elif [ "$1" = 'help' ] ||
      [ "$1" = 'list' ]; then
        export VCSH_COMMAND="$1"
@@ -144,7 +143,8 @@ if [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'clone' ]; then
 #      use || return 1
        verbose "clone end"
 
-elif [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'help' ] || [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
+#elif [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'help' ] || [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
+elif [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'help' ]; then
        help
 
 elif [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'delete' ]; then
@@ -214,23 +214,24 @@ elif [ "$VCSH_COMMAND" = 'seed-gitignore' ]; then
                        [ "$file" = "$new" ] && break
                        file="$new"
                done;
-       done | sort -u | sed 's/^/!/')
+       done | sort -u)
        tempfile=$(mktemp) ||
                (echo "$SELF: fatal: could not create tempfile" && exit 1) 
        echo '*' > "$tempfile"
        for gitignore in $gitignores; do
-               echo "$gitignore" >> "$tempfile"
+               echo "$gitignore" | sed 's/^/!/' >> "$tempfile"
+               [ -d "$gitignore" ] && echo "$gitignore/*" | sed 's/^/!/'>> "$tempfile"
        done
-       diff -N "$tempfile" "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$2" > /dev/null &&
+       diff -N "$tempfile" "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME" > /dev/null &&
                rm -f "$tempfile" &&
                return
-       if [ -e "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$2" ]; then
-               echo "$SELF: info: $HOME/.gitignore.d/$2 differs from new data, moving it to $HOME/.gitignore.d/$2.bak"
-               mv -f "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$2" "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$2.bak" ||
-                       (echo "$SELF: fatal: could not move $HOME/.gitignore.d/$2 to $HOME/.gitignore.d/$2.bak" && exit 1)
+       if [ -e "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME" ]; then
+               echo "$SELF: info: $HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME differs from new data, moving it to $HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.bak"
+               mv -f "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME" "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.bak" ||
+                       (echo "$SELF: fatal: could not move $HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME to $HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME.bak" && exit 1)
        fi
-       mv -f "$tempfile" "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$2" ||
-               (echo "$SELF: fatal: could not move $tempfile to $HOME/.gitignore.d/$2" && exit 1)
+       mv -f "$tempfile" "$HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME" ||
+               (echo "$SELF: fatal: could not move $tempfile to $HOME/.gitignore.d/$VCSH_REPO_NAME" && exit 1)
        cd "$old_dir"
        verbose "seed-gitignore end"