From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:16:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add grep.fullName config variable
Message-ID: <xmqqmwgn6z4s.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87d2hj9tfg.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Don't we have the exact same issue for the editor, by the way?
>> Shouldn't we be running it in the original subdirectory as well?
>
> It's called with an absolute name, so it shouldn't care.

But we should not have to call with absolute paths when a short and
sweet pathname relative to the user's current directory. That is the
primary point of my comment.