From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:06:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] handle_alias: provide GIT_PREFIX to !alias
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=gjuOqLEArk_0Nj1faEu62dzjbZA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5058a9853a75bff71187f553e67632997761de44.1303893279.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

2011/4/27 Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>:
> @@ -589,6 +589,8 @@ it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
>  "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".  Note that shell commands will be
>  executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
>  not necessarily be the current directory.
> +'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
> +from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].

It made me wonder "but then why should not we just do GIT_PREFIX=`git
rev-parse --show-prefix` in the alias?" then realized by the time we
do that, it's already too late. Maybe

> +'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
> +before current directory is changed to top-level directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].

?
-- 
Duy