Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Throwing something at the mailing list to see if anybody is
> interested.
>
> Current '!' aliases move cwd to $GIT_WORK_TREE first, which could make
> handling path arguments hard because they are relative to the original
> cwd. We set GIT_PREFIX to work around it, but I still think it's more
> natural to keep cwd where it is.
>
> We have a way to do that now after 441981b (git: simplify environment
> save/restore logic - 2016-01-26). It's just a matter of choosing the
> right syntax. I'm going with '!!'. I'm not very happy with it. But I
> do like this type of alias.
I do not know why you are not happy with the syntax, but I
personally think it brilliant, both the idea and the preliminary
clean-up that made this possible with a simple patch like this.
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> git.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
> index 296857a..4c1dcf4 100644
> --- a/git.c
> +++ b/git.c
> @@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
>
> alias_string++;
> commit_pager_choice();
> + if (*alias_string == '!') {
> + keep_cwd = 0;
> + alias_string++;
> + }
> restore_env(keep_cwd);
>
> child.use_shell = 1;