From: kevin brintnall <kbrint@rufus.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:44:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] added -C option to chdir() into another directory first
Message-ID: <20090226204423.GA34377@rufus.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr61lq6ky.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:35:57PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> kevin brintnall <kbrint@rufus.net> writes:
> 
> > This allows things like 'git -C /somewhere pull' without specifying both
> > --work-tree and --git-dir.
> 
> Where should "git -C sub/dir apply this.patch" find the file "this.patch"?

Good question..  It should probably come from the original $PWD.  Maybe we
should have "-C $DIR" simulate "--work-tree=$DIR --git=dir=$DIR/.git" ?

> More generally, when "git -C there cmd arg1 arg2 arg3..." is run, how
> should the implementation of cmd learn what to prefix arg$N with?

I envisioned these two as equivalent:

	git -C $DIR something
	cd $DIR ; git something

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