Ensure send-patches is run inside source modules

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/shell/send-patches b/scripts/shell/send-patches
index e15aaa8..d420357 100755
--- a/scripts/shell/send-patches
+++ b/scripts/shell/send-patches
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 
 import argparse
+import os
 import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
 GIT_CONFIG_SETUP = "sugar-build.send-patches.setup"
 
+shell_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+scripts_dir = os.path.dirname(shell_dir)
+root_dir = os.path.dirname(scripts_dir)
+source_dir = os.path.join(root_dir, "source")
+
 def get_git_config(name, is_global=False):
     args = ["git", "config"]
 
@@ -83,6 +89,10 @@ def setup():
 
     set_git_config(GIT_CONFIG_SETUP, "true")
 
+if os.path.dirname(os.getcwd()) != source_dir:
+    print "The command must be run inside one of the source modules."
+    sys.exit(1)
+
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 parser.add_argument("--setup", action="store_true",
                     help="interactive configuration")