From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:41:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce git-run-with-user-path helper program.
Message-ID: <7vekc4nom5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050518213309.GD10358@pasky.ji.cz>

>>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:

>> $ pwd
>> /usr/src/linux/fs
>> $ git-run-with-user-path cg-commit -- ext?/Makefile
>> 
>> would work.

PB> Yes. But if you do just cg-commit in the subdirectory, it won't work.

The point of git-run-with-user-path is that it canonicalizes and
filters the paths, chdir(2)'s to GIT_PROJECT_TOP before running
cg-commit.  So when cg-commit starts in the above example,

    (1) its $cwd is /usr/src/linux and your .git subdirectory is
        right there in ./.git/
    (2) it gets fs/ext2/Makefile and fs/ext3/Makefile as arguments.

>> BTW, I am wondering if your choice of cg-commit as an example
>> (as opposed to something else like diff or add) is a flamebait
>> or just an innocent random example ;-)?

PB> It was completely innocent. :-) How would it be a flamebait?

<http://members.cox.net/junkio/per-file-commit.txt> ;-).