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From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Subject: git alias always chdir to top
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:08:52 -0500
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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