From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:32:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git alias question
Message-ID: <7vy5twx7rh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87wr9g2hcd.fsf@catnip.gol.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Michael Horowitz <michael.horowitz@ieee.org> writes:
>> I was able to make the following 2 aliases, which work perfectly
>> except for one problem...
>>
>> ldiff = "!git diff `git rev-list --reverse -n 2 HEAD -- $1` -- $1"
>> ldifft = "!git difftool `git rev-list --reverse -n 2 HEAD -- $1` -- $1"
>>
>> The problem is the limitation that shell commands are always executed
>> at the top-level directory of the repository.
>
> Hmmm, it'd be cool if git exported an environment variable containing
> the CWD when it invoked external aliases like this...!

Yeah, something like GIT_PREFIX environment variable, I guess.