From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:33:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce git-run-with-user-path helper program.
Message-ID: <20050518213309.GD10358@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmutqz5f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:13:32AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> >>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
> 
> PB> But that won't work good enough for me. E.g. when committing in a
> PB> subdirectory, I want to commit only changes made in the subdirectory,
> PB> etc.
> 
> Assuming that you have something that lets you commit selected
> files when you are at the top level (say cg-commit), and further
> assuming that today it only works from the toplevel, that is:
> 
>     $ pwd
>     /usr/src/linux
>     $ cg-commit fs/ext?/Makefile
> 
> works today, what I am saying is:
> 
>     $ pwd
>     /usr/src/linux/fs
>     $ git-run-with-user-path cg-commit -- ext?/Makefile
> 
> would work.

Yes. But if you do just cg-commit in the subdirectory, it won't work.
You could pass the original directory in some environment variable or
whatever, but I think that's just not worth the trouble for Cogito -
it's much easier for it when you just stay in the directory you are in
and instead set the environment variables so that the git toolkit DTRT.
(I like this acronym. :-)

> BTW, I am wondering if your choice of cg-commit as an example
> (as opposed to something else like diff or add) is a flamebait
> or just an innocent random example ;-)?

It was completely innocent. :-) How would it be a flamebait?

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