Git aliases executed from wrong dir

Git aliases executed from wrong dir

[Kevin Ballard]

If I create an alias with `git config alias.foo '!pwd'` and then run  
it from a subdirectory of my repo, it prints out the root of my repo.  
This prevents the ability to create aliases that take filenames, as  
they simply won't work if you try and reference a file from a  
subdirectory.

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Kevin Ballard
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Re: Git aliases executed from wrong dir

[Kevin Ballard]

To clarify, this only appears to affect shell aliases (i.e. ones that  
start with !).

   git config alias.foo 'ls-files'

Works fine from a subdir

   git config alias.foo '!git ls-files'

Doesn't behave right from a subdir.

-Kevin Ballard

On Jun 25, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> If I create an alias with `git config alias.foo '!pwd'` and then run  
> it from a subdirectory of my repo, it prints out the root of my  
> repo. This prevents the ability to create aliases that take  
> filenames, as they simply won't work if you try and reference a file  
> from a subdirectory.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Ballard
> http://kevin.sb.org
> kevin@sb.org
> http://www.tildesoft.com
>
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Re: Git aliases executed from wrong dir

[Jānis Rūcis]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:44:49PM -0700, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> If I create an alias with `git config alias.foo '!pwd'` and then run it 
> from a subdirectory of my repo, it prints out the root of my repo. This 
> prevents the ability to create aliases that take filenames, as they 
> simply won't work if you try and reference a file from a subdirectory.

Got bitten by the same problem.  I have an alias for the
git-new-workdir script and I'm tracking some config files in my home
directory, but also have a bunch of Git repositories in
subdirectories.  A "cd ..; git new-workdir old new" in one of these
tells me that "old" doesn't exist (because it doesn't exist in my home
dir which the alias ends up being invoked from) while a "git
new-workdir . ../new" works as expected.