Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> +     echo "initial in dir1/dir2" >expected &&
>> +     git -C dir1/dir2 commit -m "initial in dir1/dir2" &&
>
> to reduce possibilities of breaking this test in the future due to
> typos (e.g. somebody may want to say "initial commit in dir1/dir2"),
> doing this may be a better idea:
>
>         msg="initial in dir1/dir2" &&
>         echo "$msg" >expected &&
>         git -C dir1/dir2 commit -m "$msg" &&
>
> The same comment applies to the previous one.

In his original submission, Nazri actually had it the way you suggest
for this test (though not the preceding test), but changed it in
response to a silly parenthetical "IMHO" in my review [1].

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233636/focus=233704