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Re: Help creating git alias

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2013, 19:41 UTC
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Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> writes:
> One note: i tried the ${GIT_PREFIX:-.}  and ${GIT_PREFIX} and it seems
> to give the same results. What is the expected difference here?

GIT_PREFIX may be an empty string when you run from the top-level, in which case you would end up with "cd && ..." and end up working in your $HOME.

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