On May 5, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:53:35AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
> > Am 5/5/2010 2:51, schrieb Jeff King:
> > > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:25:22PM -0400, Jared Hance wrote:
> > >
> > >> The environment variable GIT_PATHNAME_PREFIX passes on the
> > >> current working directory (where the git command was called from)
> > >> to shell aliases (aliases that begin with "!"). This allows these
> > >> shell aliases to know the directory that the git command was called
> > >> from.
> > >
> > > Seems like a reasonable goal, but...
> >
> > Sorry, I disagree.
> > [reasons why it sucks]
>
> Yes, I agree it sucks. The problem is that this information is
> totally lost now for shell aliases, so you can't even do these
> painful things. Your alias simply doesn't have access to that
> information at all. I am open to better interfaces (my "reasonable"
> above was not a ringing endorsement, but rather "I can see why you
> might want to do this").
Something that Jonathan suggested earlier is a different magic
character instead of "!" that will do the cd -- perhaps a second
character would be more acceptable, something like "!!"...
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