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Re: git commands that only work correctly at top directory

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MLMatthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date
Sep 22, 2006, 11:26 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is the list (checks are done in with 1.4.2.rc4):
> count-objects (always 0 objects, 0 kilobytes)
> bisect (fatal: Not a git repository: '.git'. Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic 
> ref)
> describe (fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD)
> repack (line 42: cd: .git/objects/pack: No such file or directory. And
> it creates a new .git directory in current directory)

count-objects and describe work in the current master. repack/bisect/reset and some other commands make only sense from the toplevel directory but anyway I would allow them to be run in a subdirectory and change up to the topdirectory (like git checkout for branch switching). Is there any good reason not to do this? I found it often annoying to go down to the toplevel directory/get a new shell just to reset to HEAD~1.

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Message 6 of 12 in “git commands that only work correctly at top directory”
  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 22, 2006
  2. format-patch: use cwd as default output directoryMatthias Lederhofer, Sep 22, 2006
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 28, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2006
  5. git-format-patch: fix bug using -o in subdirectoriesMatthias Lederhofer, Sep 28, 2006
  6. Matthias LederhoferSep 22, 2006
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 22, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  9. git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectoryJeff King, Sep 22, 2006
  10. Thomas KolejkaSep 22, 2006
  11. git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectoryJeff King, Sep 25, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 25, 2006

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