Type: Enhancement
Summary: Expand tools.gitlibs support for local Git URLs
Description:
When specifying a local file-based URL for a Git repo containing a dependency, I encounter the following error when using an absolute URL:
`
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: /path/to/my/repo is not a relative path
at clojure.java.io$as_relative_path.invokeStatic(io.clj:414)
at clojure.java.io$file.invokeStatic(io.clj:426)
at clojure.java.io$file.invoke(io.clj:418)
at clojure.lang.ArraySeq.reduce(ArraySeq.java:111)
at clojure.core$reduce.invokeStatic(core.clj:6829)
at clojure.java.io$file.invokeStatic(io.clj:418)
at clojure.tools.gitlibs.impl$git_dir.invokeStatic(impl.clj:59)
at clojure.tools.gitlibs.impl$ensure_git_dir.invokeStatic(impl.clj:80)
at clojure.tools.gitlibs$procure.invokeStatic(gitlibs.clj:61)
at clojure.tools.deps.alpha.extensions.git$fn__1317.invokeStatic(git.clj:98)
at clojure.tools.deps.alpha.extensions.git$fn__1317.invoke(git.clj:96)
at clojure.lang.MultiFn.invoke(MultiFn.java:239)
at clojure.tools.deps.alpha$expand_deps.invokeStatic(alpha.clj:425)
at clojure.tools.deps.alpha$resolve_deps.invokeStatic(alpha.clj:495)
at clojure.tools.deps.alpha$calc_basis.invokeStatic(alpha.clj:738)
...
`
The requirement of relative URLs makes specifying dependencies more difficult in certain contexts - the specific motivating use case for me is a WSL environment where the Clojure process is running in Ubuntu/WSL but the source code is in the Windows filesystem.
Alex Miller mentioned on the Clojurians Slack when I mentioned this problem that "that's really a subset of the problem - the code that translates git urls to cache dirs and libs doesn't handle either raw paths or relative urls."
