Re: Git aliases executed from wrong dir

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Jun 25, 2008, 23:49 UTC
Message-ID: <E9A68D2F-10AD-4779-AACB-6152A38D37C5@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <9777229F-27FD-4CB2-A5C7-6CA15733B8D2@sb.org>

To clarify, this only appears to affect shell aliases (i.e. ones that start with !).

   git config alias.foo 'ls-files'

Works fine from a subdir

   git config alias.foo '!git ls-files'

Doesn't behave right from a subdir.

-Kevin Ballard

On Jun 25, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

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> If I create an alias with `git config alias.foo '!pwd'` and then run  
> it from a subdirectory of my repo, it prints out the root of my  
> repo. This prevents the ability to create aliases that take  
> filenames, as they simply won't work if you try and reference a file  
> from a subdirectory.
>
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