From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:35:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] git-find-git: a new helper.
Message-ID: <200512011535.25022.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzjuzphl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thursday 24 November 2005 04:36, you wrote:
>     GIT_DIR_PREFIX is a string to be prepended to cwd relative
>     paths to make them repository relative.
> 
>     GIT_DIR_UPLEVEL is a string (e.g. "../") for the command to
>     use to cd to the top-level of repository.

Hi,

can we revive this idea?
I thought about how to make work

 $top/Documentation> git-mv ../file .

and also detection of trying to move to the outside.
Requirements IMHO:
(1) helper which is also useful from PERL
(2) git-mv checks against version controlled files via git-ls-files.
Thus, I need to run git-ls-files from the toplevel, to be able to
see $top/file. 
(3) translation of cwd relative into toplevel relative paths.

Or is there already a way to do this with current git?

Josef