Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce git-run-with-user-path helper program.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 19, 2005, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7jhvymwe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505181731450.18337@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> ... I do believe that git-run-with-user-path _could_ be a LT> good way to abstract out the "where the heck in the tree am LT> I?" issues.

Yes, I am still in search of a good way to abstract that issue out and I myself is not yet convinced that the command in its current form _is_ a good enough way yet.

What I am most unhappy about with it lies elsewhere, though. There needs to be a better way to tell it how the underlying command handles non-paths arguments, so that I can just say

    git-run-with-user-path <some option spec for the command> \
        command arg1 arg2 arg3 ...

and if arg1 through argO is non-path options then have it canonicalize and filter only starting from argO+1. That would alleviate one issue I have with the current implementation.