From: kevin brintnall <kbrint@rufus.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] added -C option to chdir() into another directory first
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:44:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226204423.GA34377@rufus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr61lq6ky.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:35:57PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> kevin brintnall <kbrint@rufus.net> writes:
>
> > This allows things like 'git -C /somewhere pull' without specifying both
> > --work-tree and --git-dir.
>
> Where should "git -C sub/dir apply this.patch" find the file "this.patch"?
Good question.. It should probably come from the original $PWD. Maybe we
should have "-C $DIR" simulate "--work-tree=$DIR --git=dir=$DIR/.git" ?
> More generally, when "git -C there cmd arg1 arg2 arg3..." is run, how
> should the implementation of cmd learn what to prefix arg$N with?
I envisioned these two as equivalent:
git -C $DIR something
cd $DIR ; git something
--
kevin brintnall =~ /kbrint@rufus.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-26 20:11 [PATCH] added -C option to chdir() into another directory first kevin brintnall
2009-02-26 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-26 20:44 ` kevin brintnall [this message]
2009-02-26 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-27 14:21 ` Michael J Gruber
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