From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 06:30:58 GMT
Subject: Re: git difftool does does not respect current working directory
Message-ID: <7vwrhjxn4t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110522061446.GA49297@gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

> I think updating git-difftool--helper.sh to pass a chdir to vim
> might be just the thing to do.  git-difftool.perl can be
> updated to set $GIT_DIFFTOOL_PWD so that the helper can use it
> as -c 'cd $GIT_DIFFTOOL_PWD'.  I'll see if I can whip up a patch
> in a lil bit.

Hmm, would this benefit from sharing some concepts with 7cf16a1
(handle_alias: provide GIT_PREFIX to !alias, 2011-04-27)?

If it helps, we might want to uniformly give this information to all
external processes and programs, including hooks.