Re: [PATCH 2/2] mergetool: fix running mergetool in sub-directories

Charles Bailey [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

I wonder if it would be cleaner to keep $prefix and instead cd_to_toplevel
at the beginning.
...

Possibly, and I certainly wouldn't object if mergetool moved to the
latter mode of operation in the medium term.

In general, though, mergetool is pretty happy running from the users
directory and there may be cases in which users expect the merge tool to
be running from the directory that they started in (saving extra files
during the merge process?).

A very sensible consideration that I agree with.  I am happy that you
were the one who volunteered to take this script over.