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Re: Git aliases executed from wrong dir

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JRJānis Rūcis <parasti@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 16, 2008, 03:46 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:44:49PM -0700, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> If I create an alias with `git config alias.foo '!pwd'` and then run it 
> from a subdirectory of my repo, it prints out the root of my repo. This 
> prevents the ability to create aliases that take filenames, as they 
> simply won't work if you try and reference a file from a subdirectory.

Got bitten by the same problem. I have an alias for the git-new-workdir script and I'm tracking some config files in my home directory, but also have a bunch of Git repositories in subdirectories. A "cd ..; git new-workdir old new" in one of these tells me that "old" doesn't exist (because it doesn't exist in my home dir which the alias ends up being invoked from) while a "git new-workdir . ../new" works as expected.

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