From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 02:26:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: make format.outputDirectory relative to worktree
Message-ID: <xmqqtv5p3zuc.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191224220544.GA1917@generichostname>

Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:

> ... Maybe `worktree:path/from/top` or
> `^path/from/top` or something like this?

I recall seeing a similar idea with a bit better syntax discussed
when we talked about path-type values in the configuration system,
where we use "~WORD~/" prefix to expand to Git specific special
places in the filesystem, just like "~USER/" prefix expands to the
home directory of the user.  E.g. "~gitdir~/config" may expand to
point at the per-repository configuration file in the current
repository, and "~worktree~/Makefile" may be the top-level Makefile
checked out in the current worktree.  This depends on the fact that
nobody sane has username ending with tilde (and if there is such a
user, tough luck for that user).  I'm tempted to credit Dscho for
the idea but it could have been by J6t.

Does anybody have a pointer to the discussion thread?