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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 19, 2005, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505181731450.18337@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v64xgnl55.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> PB> Yes. My point is that sometimes the Cogito commands have
> PB> directory-specific functionality even when called without any arguments.
> 
> PB> $ pwd
> PB> /usr/src/linux
> PB> $ date >>README
> PB> $ cd fs
> PB> $ date >>Makefile
> PB> $ cg-commit
> 
> PB> will commit only the fs/Makefile change.
> 
> Ah, thanks.  That what I missed.

Note that if git-run-with-user-path just has some way to tell what the relative pathname of the original program was (say $DEF_SUBDIRECTORY), this could still fairly easily be handled: having the cg-Xcommit program say "if there are no arguments, we default to $DEF_SUBDIRECTORY" rather than "with no arguments, default to '.'".

I don't personally much care, since this is all porcelain, but basically I don't think these things are in any way mutually incompatible, and I do believe that git-run-with-user-path _could_ be a good way to abstract out the "where the heck in the tree am I?" issues.

		Linus