From: Kevin Ballard Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:49:47 GMT Subject: Re: Git aliases executed from wrong dir Message-ID: 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: > 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. > > -- > Kevin Ballard > http://kevin.sb.org > kevin@sb.org > http://www.tildesoft.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com