Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce git-run-with-user-path helper program.

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

PB> Yes. My point is that sometimes the Cogito commands have
PB> directory-specific functionality even when called without any arguments.

PB> $ pwd
PB> /usr/src/linux
PB> $ date >>README
PB> $ cd fs
PB> $ date >>Makefile
PB> $ cg-commit

PB> will commit only the fs/Makefile change.

Ah, thanks.  That what I missed.

Note that if git-run-with-user-path just has some way to tell what the
relative pathname of the original program was (say $DEF_SUBDIRECTORY),
this could still fairly easily be handled: having the cg-Xcommit program
say "if there are no arguments, we default to $DEF_SUBDIRECTORY" rather
than "with no arguments, default to '.'".

I don't personally much care, since this is all porcelain, but basically I
don't think these things are in any way mutually incompatible, and I do
believe that git-run-with-user-path _could_ be a good way to abstract out
the "where the heck in the tree am I?" issues.

		Linus