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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] git-find-git: a new helper.
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:21:11 -0800
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To: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it>
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Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>  git-find-git uses it to find the
>> top-level, and if it was run from a subdirectory, outputs shell
>> script fragments that can be evaled to define the two variables:
>>     GIT_DIR_PREFIX is a string to be prepended to cwd relative
>>     paths to make them repository relative.
>>     GIT_DIR_UPLEVEL is a string (e.g. "../") for the command to
>>     use to cd to the top-level of repository.
>>
> Sounds very good.
>
> I did't had the time to test it but I think I can now
> easily update qgit to run from a subdirectory with this new helper.

The helper might be good, but it turns out that the idea of
using it from git-sh-setup was not that great, so please
disregard the third part of the patch.  I think I need a bit
more thinking about this.