Re: git rebase -i --exec and changing directory

Hi Philip,

2018-05-27 14:28 GMT+02:00 Philip Oakley [off-list ref]:

You may need to give a bit more background of things that seem obvious to
you.
So where is the src directory you are cd'ing to relative to the
directory/repository you are creating?

It is located in the top-level directory of the working tree (in the
same directory that .git is in).

From git-rebase(1):

    The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the one
    specified in $SHELL, or the default shell if $SHELL is not set), so
    you can use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is
    run from the root of the working tree.

So I need to run 'cd src' if I want to run a command in there
(regardless of the working directory of the git rebase command
itself).

What is [the name of] the directory you are currently in, etc. ?

I don't think that is relevant here. FWIW, when verifying the problem
I ran the reproducer from my original message in a directory whose
path did not contain any spaces or special characters.

Did you try to run the reproducing commands I posted? Did you get a
different result? You should see the following in the output of 'cd
dir && git status':

[...]
Changes not staged for commit:
 (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
 (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

       deleted:    a
       deleted:    b
       deleted:    dir/x
       deleted:    reproduce.sh

Untracked files:
 (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

       x
[...]

When I drop the 'cd dir && ' from before 'git status', the output is
as expected:

You are currently editing a commit while rebasing branch 'master' on '19765db'.
 (use "git commit --amend" to amend the current commit)
 (use "git rebase --continue" once you are satisfied with your changes)

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Philip
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From: "Ondrej Mosnáček" <omosnacek@gmail.com>
Bump? Has anyone had time to look at this?

2018-05-19 18:38 GMT+02:00 Ondrej Mosnáček [off-list ref]:

quoted

Hello,

I am trying to run a script to edit multiple commits using 'git rebase
-i --exec ...' and I ran into a strange behavior when I run 'cd'
inside the --exec command and subsequently run a git command. For
example, if the command is 'cd src && git status', then git status
reports as if all files in the repository are deleted.

Example command sequence to reproduce the problem:

    # Setup:
    touch a
    mkdir dir
    touch dir/x

    git init .
    git add --all
    git commit -m commit1
    git tag base
    touch b
    git add --all
    git commit -m commit2

    # Here we go:
    git rebase -i --exec 'cd dir && git status' base

    # Spawning a sub-shell doesn't help:
    git rebase -i --exec '(cd dir && git status)' base

Is this expected behavior or did I found a bug? Is there any
workaround, other than cd'ing to the toplevel directory every time I
want to run a git command when I am inside a subdirectory?

$ git --version
git version 2.17.0

Thanks,

Ondrej Mosnacek