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-rwxr-xr-xsupport/download/git18
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/support/download/git b/support/download/git
index c166ae2813..1172310186 100755
--- a/support/download/git
+++ b/support/download/git
@@ -43,14 +43,16 @@ _git() {
eval GIT_DIR="${git_cache}/.git" ${GIT} "${@}"
}
-# If the cache directory doesn't exists, init a new repo, which will be
-# fetch'ed later.
-if [ ! -d "${git_cache}" ]; then
- # We can still go through the wrapper, because 'init' does not use
- # the path pointed to by GIT_DIR, but really uses the directory
- # passed as argument.
- _git init "'${git_cache}'"
-fi
+# Initialise a repository in the git cache. If the repository already
+# existed, this is a noop, unless the repository was broken, in which
+# case this magically restores it to working conditions. In the latter
+# case, we might be missing blobs, but that's not a problem: we'll
+# fetch what we need later anyway.
+#
+# We can still go through the wrapper, because 'init' does not use the
+# path pointed to by GIT_DIR, but really uses the directory passed as
+# argument.
+_git init "'${git_cache}'"
pushd "${git_cache}" >/dev/null
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