Hi Philip,
2018-05-27 14:28 GMT+02:00 Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>:
> You may need to give a bit more background of things that seem obvious to
> you.
> So where is the src directory you are cd'ing to relative to the
> directory/repository you are creating?
It is located in the top-level directory of the working tree (in the
same directory that .git is in).
>From git-rebase(1):
The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the one
specified in $SHELL, or the default shell if $SHELL is not set), so
you can use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is
run from the root of the working tree.
So I need to run 'cd src' if I want to run a command in there
(regardless of the working directory of the git rebase command
itself).
> What is [the name of] the directory you are currently in, etc. ?
I don't think that is relevant here. FWIW, when verifying the problem
I ran the reproducer from my original message in a directory whose
path did not contain any spaces or special characters.
Did you try to run the reproducing commands I posted? Did you get a
different result? You should see the following in the output of 'cd
dir && git status':
[...]
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
deleted: a
deleted: b
deleted: dir/x
deleted: reproduce.sh
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
x
[...]
When I drop the 'cd dir && ' from before 'git status', the output is
as expected:
You are currently editing a commit while rebasing branch 'master' on '19765db'.
(use "git commit --amend" to amend the current commit)
(use "git rebase --continue" once you are satisfied with your changes)
nothing to commit, working tree clean
>
> Philip
> --
>
> From: "Ondrej Mosnáček" <omosnacek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Bump? Has anyone had time to look at this?
>
> 2018-05-19 18:38 GMT+02:00 Ondrej Mosnáček <omosnacek@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to run a script to edit multiple commits using 'git rebase
>> -i --exec ...' and I ran into a strange behavior when I run 'cd'
>> inside the --exec command and subsequently run a git command. For
>> example, if the command is 'cd src && git status', then git status
>> reports as if all files in the repository are deleted.
>>
>> Example command sequence to reproduce the problem:
>>
>> # Setup:
>> touch a
>> mkdir dir
>> touch dir/x
>>
>> git init .
>> git add --all
>> git commit -m commit1
>> git tag base
>> touch b
>> git add --all
>> git commit -m commit2
>>
>> # Here we go:
>> git rebase -i --exec 'cd dir && git status' base
>>
>> # Spawning a sub-shell doesn't help:
>> git rebase -i --exec '(cd dir && git status)' base
>>
>> Is this expected behavior or did I found a bug? Is there any
>> workaround, other than cd'ing to the toplevel directory every time I
>> want to run a git command when I am inside a subdirectory?
>>
>> $ git --version
>> git version 2.17.0
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ondrej Mosnacek
>
>
