Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce git-run-with-user-path helper program.

PB> But that won't work good enough for me. E.g. when committing in a PB> subdirectory, I want to commit only changes made in the subdirectory, PB> etc.

Assuming that you have something that lets you commit selected files when you are at the top level (say cg-commit), and further assuming that today it only works from the toplevel, that is:

    $ pwd
    /usr/src/linux
    $ cg-commit fs/ext?/Makefile

works today, what I am saying is:

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

would work.

Usually the command like cg-commit would take non-path parameters, so if this works today:

    $ pwd
    /usr/src/linux
    $ cg-commit -m 'Changed Makefile' fs/ext?/Makefile

then:

    $ pwd
    /usr/src/linux/fs
    $ git-run-with-user-path cg-commit -m 'Changed Makefile' -- ext?/Makefile

would work.

Once you have a core that works well but only at the top directory level, then you can make a thin wrapper using git-run-with-user-path to make that work equally well with the filesystem path from subdirectories. And the core-ish thing that only works at the top directory level does not need to worry about finding .git/ anymore, which is the whole point of what this helper is giving you.

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 ;-)?