Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I had the crazy thought that if git had a --cdup option, then this
> would work with any command you wanted to run from the top:
>
> git --cdup grep ...
>
> Maybe that's the best way to expose "from the top please" generically?
We tend to give --full-tree option to individual subcommands where it
makes sense to get the same effect.
One problem with a global "git --cdup" is to sensibly handle pathspecs
given from the command line. You would likely want
$ cd Documentation
$ git --cdup grep -e info pu Makefile '*.txt'
to still refer to Makefile relative to Documentation/ directory (imagine
typing "Makef<TAB>" to complete while forming that command line) while
looking for '*.txt' files everywhere in the tree, but only individual
commands can tell which parameters are pathspec in argv[]. Hence the
subcommands have to be aware of the wish (--cdup or --full-tree) of the
user to affect the full tree, not limited to the current working
directory.
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