On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:30:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I think updating git-difftool--helper.sh to pass a chdir to vim > > might be just the thing to do. git-difftool.perl can be > > updated to set $GIT_DIFFTOOL_PWD so that the helper can use it > > as -c 'cd $GIT_DIFFTOOL_PWD'. I'll see if I can whip up a patch > > in a lil bit. > > Hmm, would this benefit from sharing some concepts with 7cf16a1 > (handle_alias: provide GIT_PREFIX to !alias, 2011-04-27)? > > If it helps, we might want to uniformly give this information to all > external processes and programs, including hooks. Yes, this would be very helpful. Without this my patch would have to touch git-difftool.perl, git-mergetool.sh, and git-mergetool--helper.sh. With $GIT_PREFIX it would touch git-mergetool--helper.sh only. -- David -- 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