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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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Michael Horowitz <michael.horowitz@ieee.org> writes:

> The log operation does seem to make the most sense as the mechanism to
> search for the results.  Making it work with difftool would work...
> Not sure if "--log" to difftool or some other options as suggested in
> the other thread would be most consistent UI-wise as stated, but
> either would work for me.
> 
> On a separate note, some environment variable like GIT_PREFIX with the
> CWD would make the alias functionality more flexible.

1f5d271 (setup: Provide GIT_PREFIX to built-ins, 2011-05-25) is
present in v1.7.7; 7cf16a1 (handle_alias: provide GIT_PREFIX to
!alias, 2011-04-27) is in 1.7.6

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Jakub Narebski