Re: [RFC/PATCH] rebase -i: add run command to launch a shell command

> That's a good question. My original patch was running the command from
> the toplevel, which is the natural way to implement it. I've changed
> my mind to execute the command from the place where "git rebase -i"
> was started (which means this has to be memorized in a temporary file
> to be persistant accross "git rebase --continue"). I think this makes
> more sense for the user, and I've actually already been biten by the
> old behavior, running "rebase -i" from a doc/ subdirectory, and
> wondering why my "exec make" was rebuilding the code itself.
>
> This comes with at least one drawback: if directory from which the
> rebase was started didn't exist in the past, then we can't do a simple
> "cd" to it. My implementation re-creates the directory temporarily, so
> that the command can run, and cleans it up afterwards. The only really
> problematic case is when the directory can not be created (like
> directory/file conflict). It this case, the command is not ran, and
> the script exits.