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[PATCH] cg-commit: prefix the relative path to the message file

From
Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date
Aug 25, 2006, 00:06 UTC
Message-ID
<20060825000614.GF2817@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To
<87d5aru4px.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
Makes the -M switch work from a subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
---
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote Wed, Aug 23, 2006:
> Hello,
Hi,
> I discovered that "cg-commit -M MSG-FILE ..." fails when run from
> a subdirectory, and when MSG-FILE is a relative file name.
> This is using cogito-0.17.3-2 from Debian/unstable, but the problem
> remains when using the latest cogito sources, pulled minutes ago.
The attached patch should fix this problem.
---
 cg-commit |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/cg-commit b/cg-commit
index 0cec58f..5cebd81 100755
--- a/cg-commit
+++ b/cg-commit
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ fi
 
 if [ "$msgfile" ]; then
 	[ "$written" ] && echo >>"$LOGMSG"
-	cat "$msgfile" >>"$LOGMSG" || exit 1
+	cat "$_git_relpath$msgfile" >>"$LOGMSG" || exit 1
 	written=1
 fi
 
-- 
Jonas Fonseca
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