From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:18:08 GMT
Subject: Re: using aliases within the subdirectory
Message-ID: <4DA59480.5080307@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <4DA579CA.5030908@ge.infn.it>

Matej Batic venit, vidit, dixit 13.04.2011 12:24:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am facing a problem, noted previously in
>     
> http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-alias-always-chdir-to-top-td1609456.html  
> 
>     http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/5/5/29818/thread
> which in practice means that I cannot pass the " -- 
> relative_path_to_some_file_in_the_tree" argument to my alias.
> 
> Is there any way to get the current working dir before git changes dir 
> to root directory?
> 
> Best regards,
> Matej

This may depend on your shell and rc files, but for me, $PWD gives the
original current working dir.

Also, revisiting that topic after 1.7.5 seems worthwhile.

Michael