2011/4/27 Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > @@ -589,6 +589,8 @@ it will be treated as a shell command. ÂFor example, defining > Â"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". ÂNote that shell commands will be > Âexecuted from the top-level directory of a repository, which may > Ânot necessarily be the current directory. > +'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix' > +from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. It made me wonder "but then why should not we just do GIT_PREFIX=`git rev-parse --show-prefix` in the alias?" then realized by the time we do that, it's already too late. Maybe > +'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix' > +before current directory is changed to top-level directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. ? -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html