If I try to specify custom scripts for freeze/thaw in .git/config of a repository with relative paths (since absolute paths are not robust to renames etc and thus IMHO should be avoided):
(datalad) [f006rq8@discovery-01 subdir]$ pwd
/dartfs/rc/lab/D/DBIC/DBIC/CON/asmacdo/tmp/test-local-thaw/subdir
(datalad) [f006rq8@discovery-01 subdir]$ git config get annex.thawcontent-command
.git/annex/thaw-content %path
(datalad) [f006rq8@discovery-01 subdir]$ git config get annex.freezecontent-command
.git/annex/freeze-content %path
their invocation fails when ran from subdirectory
[2024-10-16 14:47:08.941720897] (Annex.Perms) freezing content ../.git/annex/objects/6k/VJ/MD5E-s115--9a295e3f5f148380d74c3ff3ebdaa173/MD5E-s115--9a295e3f5f148380d74c3ff3ebdaa173
[2024-10-16 14:47:08.948171243] (Utility.Process) process [2572997] call: sh ["-c",".git/annex/freeze-content '../.git/annex/objects/6k/VJ/MD5E-s115--9a295e3f5f148380d74c3ff3ebdaa173/MD5E-s1
15--9a295e3f5f148380d74c3ff3ebdaa173'"]
sh: .git/annex/freeze-content: No such file or directory
I wonder if there could be a way added to be able to specify them relative to the top of the repository.
.git/hooks, e.g..git/hooks/annex-{freeze,thaw}-content?One simple solution is the put the script somewhere in PATH and then set the config to the name of the script rather than its location.
In the case of the freeze and thaw hooks, these are run a lot and so git-annex shouldn't be checking if .git/hooks/annex-freeze-content exists every time.