From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:21:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Allow whole-tree operations to be started from a subdirectory Message-ID: <20070114002152.GA18277@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <200701140111.20671.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Josef Weidendorfer wrote: > The wish to allow git-fetch from subdirectories is the > inconvenience to have to cd up, and later down. This is > avoided by running "git --top fetch", and theses people > should be happy. But not only that, git-fetch *never* alters the working directory. So it doesn't matter where git-fetch is invoked from, just that it can find the correct .git directory to run against. And --top isn't necessary to do that, the command will find the implied .git directory own its own. -- Shawn.