Re: adding file by absolute name -- problem

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 23, 2007, 11:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704231156230.3653@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <f36b08ee0704230330if89d417udefb8e50062d5a05@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Yakov Lerner wrote:

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> On 4/23/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Yakov Lerner wrote:
>> 
>> >  When I give absolute pathname /a/b/repo/d to git add, it
>> >  mostly does not work. I get errors from git-add. Is it by design ?
>>
>>  AFAICT it is by design. I fail to see why absolute paths should be
>>  supported, too. You are supposed to be _in_ the working directory when
>>  adding files...
>
> Let's say I have $SRC that points to the dir of sources. Let's say
> I am testing the software, somewhere under /tmp. I edit sources as
> 'vi $SRC/something' and I am not in $SRC. I could do 'make -C $SRC' and
> I can do everything (incl checkins) without switching cwd back and
> forth all the time.

git () { cd $SRC; ~/bin/git "$@"; } ?

-- 
Julian

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