From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git alias always chdir to top
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:08:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081203160852.GA3773@osc.edu> (raw)
I have a git alias that takes a relative file name argument,
and would like to know from where in the tree it was invoked,
especially if inside a subdirectory of the git tree.
Consider .git/config:
[alias]
pwd = !/bin/pwd
Then a git tree:
/home/me
topdir/
.git/
subdir/
subdir-y.c
topdir-x.c
Then inside /home/me/topdir, all is well:
$ pwd
/home/me/topdir
$ git pwd
/home/me/topdir
But inside /home/me/topdir/subdir, the pwd alias is invoked in the wrong
dir:
$ pwd
/home/me/topdir/subdir
$ git pwd
/home/me/topdir
The implication of this is that I call an alias command like:
$ pwd
/home/me/topdir/subdir
$ git myalias subdir-y.c
myalias: No such file subdir-y.c
It looks like handle_alias() uses setup_git_directory_gently() to
find the .git, which chdir()s up until it gets there. Is there a
way to do this without changing the process current working
directory instead? I could even handle an environment variable
saving the original cwd, but that's ickier.
-- Pete
next reply other threads:[~2008-12-03 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 16:08 Pete Wyckoff [this message]
2008-12-04 12:34 ` git alias always chdir to top Jeff King
2008-12-05 14:09 ` Pete Wyckoff
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