From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:07:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cg-commit: prefix the relative path to the message file
Message-ID: <87fyerq291.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060825000614.GF2817@diku.dk>

Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> wrote:
> Makes the -M switch work from a subdirectory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
>
> ---
>
> Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote Wed, Aug 23, 2006:
>> Hello,
>
> Hi,
>
>> I discovered that "cg-commit -M MSG-FILE ..." fails when run from
>> a subdirectory, and when MSG-FILE is a relative file name.
>> This is using cogito-0.17.3-2 from Debian/unstable, but the problem
>> remains when using the latest cogito sources, pulled minutes ago.
>
> The attached patch should fix this problem.
>
> ---
>
>  cg-commit |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cg-commit b/cg-commit
> index 0cec58f..5cebd81 100755
> --- a/cg-commit
> +++ b/cg-commit
> @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ fi
>
>  if [ "$msgfile" ]; then
>  	[ "$written" ] && echo >>"$LOGMSG"
> -	cat "$msgfile" >>"$LOGMSG" || exit 1
> +	cat "$_git_relpath$msgfile" >>"$LOGMSG" || exit 1
>  	written=1
>  fi
>
>

Thank you!
That solved the problem for me.