From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:24:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce git-run-with-user-path helper program. Message-ID: <20050518232408.GA18281@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <7vekc4nom5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:41:38AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > >>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis writes: > > >> $ pwd > >> /usr/src/linux/fs > >> $ git-run-with-user-path cg-commit -- ext?/Makefile > >> > >> would work. > > PB> Yes. But if you do just cg-commit in the subdirectory, it won't work. > > The point of git-run-with-user-path is that it canonicalizes and > filters the paths, chdir(2)'s to GIT_PROJECT_TOP before running > cg-commit. So when cg-commit starts in the above example, > > (1) its $cwd is /usr/src/linux and your .git subdirectory is > right there in ./.git/ > (2) it gets fs/ext2/Makefile and fs/ext3/Makefile as arguments. Yes. My point is that sometimes the Cogito commands have directory-specific functionality even when called without any arguments. $ pwd /usr/src/linux $ date >>README $ cd fs $ date >>Makefile $ cg-commit will commit only the fs/Makefile change. > >> 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 ;-)? > > PB> It was completely innocent. :-) How would it be a flamebait? > > ;-). JIT's snapshotting makes up for it, I think. It has some beauty. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor