Re: [PATCH 3/3] Allow whole-tree operations to be started from a subdirectory

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 14, 2007, 01:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejpyidgl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45A97EC5.10401@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

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> Which is why I think the commands should just cd to the top directory
> as needed. Doing otherwise is just making the user do pointless
> busywork. IMO any command that, if run in a subdirectory, currently
> does nothing but spit out a "hey, you can't run me in a subdirectory!"
> error is not doing what the user wanted. The user never runs one of
> those commands hoping to see an error message or to test whether he's
> in the top-level directory. I can't think of any situation in which
> I'd want to see that error instead of the --top behavior.

Having said what I said in the other message, I 120% agree with this.

The 20% you did not say but I am adding because I really want it to happen is this. I want to make running "git merge" from a subdirectory first cd-up the interactive shell I am typing "git merge" into and then run the command. This is because the reason why I am running one of these "whole tree" operations is because I am done with what I have been doing in the subdirectory I was in, and I am moving onto something different.

Of course this cannot be done from within "git merge" command, but perhaps with clever use of shell aliases it might be possible.