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From: Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current 
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Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:05:40 -0400
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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