From: Jānis Rūcis <parasti@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:46:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Git aliases executed from wrong dir
Message-ID: <20080816034632.GA16198@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <9777229F-27FD-4CB2-A5C7-6CA15733B8D2@sb.org>

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.