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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Matej Batic <matej.batic@ge.infn.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] handle_alias: provide GIT_PREFIX to !alias
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:06:09 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=gjuOqLEArk_0Nj1faEu62dzjbZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5058a9853a75bff71187f553e67632997761de44.1303893279.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

2011/4/27 Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>:
> @@ -589,6 +589,8 @@ it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
>  "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".  Note that shell commands will be
>  executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
>  not necessarily be the current directory.
> +'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
> +from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].

It made me wonder "but then why should not we just do GIT_PREFIX=`git
rev-parse --show-prefix` in the alias?" then realized by the time we
do that, it's already too late. Maybe

> +'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
> +before current directory is changed to top-level directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].

?
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-27  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4DA59B27.50506@ge.infn.it>
2011-04-13 13:05 ` [RFC/PATCH] handle_alias: provide GIT_CWD to !alias Michael J Gruber
2011-04-13 13:12   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-13 13:16     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-04-13 13:24       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-26 22:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27  6:47     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-04-27  7:40       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-27  8:10         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-04-27  8:36           ` [PATCH 1/2] t1020: test !alias in subdirectory Michael J Gruber
2011-04-27  8:36             ` [PATCH 2/2] handle_alias: provide GIT_PREFIX to !alias Michael J Gruber
2011-04-27  9:06               ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2011-04-27  9:36                 ` Michael J Gruber

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