# [PATCH] gitk: automatically cd to $GIT_PREFIX

1 messages from 2021-05-05 to 2021-05-05. Participants: Felipe Contreras.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/55629

## Felipe Contreras, 2021-05-05 21:18

Subject: [PATCH] gitk: automatically cd to $GIT_PREFIX
Message-ID: <20210505211846.1842824-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20210505211846.1842824-1-felipe.contreras%40gmail.com

```
If gitk is ran as a shell alias it cannot find specified files in the
command line if ran in a subdir (because it's ran in the top-level
directory).

  cd Documentation/
  git -c 'alias.test=!gitk' test -- config.txt

The simplest way to fix this is to automatically cd to the specified
$GIT_PREFIX in the environment.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
---
 gitk | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 23d9dd1..c7c6989 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -12505,6 +12505,10 @@ if {[catch {set gitdir [exec git rev-parse --git-dir]}]} {
     exit 1
 }
 
+if {[info exists env(GIT_PREFIX)] && $env(GIT_PREFIX) ne ""} {
+    cd $env(GIT_PREFIX)
+}
+
 set selecthead {}
 set selectheadid {}
 
-- 
2.31.0


```