From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:35:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] added -C option to chdir() into another directory first
Message-ID: <7vr61lq6ky.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1235679099-33994-1-git-send-email-kbrint@rufus.net>

kevin brintnall <kbrint@rufus.net> writes:

> This allows things like 'git -C /somewhere pull' without specifying both
> --work-tree and --git-dir.

Where should "git -C sub/dir apply this.patch" find the file "this.patch"?

More generally, when "git -C there cmd arg1 arg2 arg3..." is run, how
should the implementation of cmd learn what to prefix arg$N with?