Re: using aliases within the subdirectory

Matej Batic venit, vidit, dixit 13.04.2011 14:26:

Michael J Gruber wrote:

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Matej Batic venit, vidit, dixit 13.04.2011 12:24:
  

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Dear all,

I am facing a problem, noted previously in
    
http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-alias-always-chdir-to-top-td1609456.html  

    http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/5/5/29818/thread
which in practice means that I cannot pass the " -- 
relative_path_to_some_file_in_the_tree" argument to my alias.

Is there any way to get the current working dir before git changes dir 
to root directory?

Best regards,
Matej
    

This may depend on your shell and rc files, but for me, $PWD gives the
original current working dir.

Also, revisiting that topic after 1.7.5 seems worthwhile.

Michael
  

Well, that does not work for me:
[alias]
    pwd = "!sh -c 'echo $PWD'"

git pwd inside tree subdirectory will print git root directory with git 
version 1.7.3.4 and also with 1.7.4.1.

I had only tried "pwd = !env" to check the environment which is passed
(and that has the PWD from the subdir). So, I guess you'd need to have a
second look at that topic.

Michael