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From: Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: wmpalmer@gmail.com, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current  directory.
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:05:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n2qc376da901005051705t821b073do178d0261c4e4b2c0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpr19j4ng.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 5/5/10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> It probably is a good idea to switch aliases to start at the $cwd in 1.8.0
> (or perhaps one major release after it), and using a notation that is more
> descriptive, something like "!(cwd)" vs "!(root)", may give us a better
> transtion strategy than casting cryptic "!!" in the stone.
>

For what it's worth, I like "!cmd".

Would it be good enough to set some environment variables?

    [alias]
    command_in_cwd = "!cd $GIT_CWD; ..."

Adam

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-06  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  0:25 [PATCH] Set GIT_PATHNAME_PREFIX with aliases Jared Hance
2010-05-05  0:51 ` Jeff King
2010-05-05  6:53   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-05  7:01     ` Jeff King
2010-05-05  7:52       ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 16:07         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-05 20:28           ` [PATCH] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 20:52             ` [PATCH] An alias that starts with &quot;!!&quot; " Jared Hance
2010-05-05 20:58               ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:00                 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:24                   ` Re-submitting patches Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-05 21:28                     ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:31             ` [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 22:22               ` Will Palmer
2010-05-05 22:33                 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 23:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-06  0:05                   ` Adam Brewster [this message]
2010-05-06  6:21                     ` Will Palmer
2010-05-06  6:26                   ` Will Palmer
2010-05-06  6:36                   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-06  7:02                   ` Matthieu Moy
2010-05-05 22:02             ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2010-05-05 22:13               ` Eli Barzilay

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