Re: git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2011, 18:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd3mchumz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4gkhuw4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I had the crazy thought that if git had a --cdup option, then this
>> would work with any command you wanted to run from the top:
>>
>>   git --cdup grep ...
>>
>> Maybe that's the best way to expose "from the top please" generically?
>
> We tend to give --full-tree option to individual subcommands where it
> makes sense to get the same effect.
>
> One problem with a global "git --cdup" is ...

Having said all that, here is a tip of the day. I have this in my .bashrc for interactive shells.

        cdup () {
                local eh
                eh=$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree) || return
                case "$eh" in
                true)
                        eh=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
                        test -z "$eh" || cd "$eh"
                        ;;
                false)
                        eh=$(git rev-parse --git-dir) || return
                        cd "$eh" || return
                        eh=$(git rev-parse --is-bare-repository) || return
                        test "z$eh" = ztrue || cd ..
                        ;;
                esac
        }

and I can say

	$ cd Documentation/howto
        $ editor *.txt
        $ cdup

to come back to the toplevel after having worked somewhere deep in the mine.