Re: [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory.

From: Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>
Date: May 6, 2010, 00:05 UTC
Message-ID: <n2qc376da901005051705t821b073do178d0261c4e4b2c0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr19j4ng.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 5/5/10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> It probably is a good idea to switch aliases to start at the $cwd in 1.8.0
> (or perhaps one major release after it), and using a notation that is more
> descriptive, something like "!(cwd)" vs "!(root)", may give us a better
> transtion strategy than casting cryptic "!!" in the stone.
>

For what it's worth, I like "!cmd".

Would it be good enough to set some environment variables?

    [alias]
    command_in_cwd = "!cd $GIT_CWD; ..."

Adam