On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:23 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2. > `git interpret-trailers --in-place` seem like work on git top-dir, > If I am in a sub-dir `b` and I want to change a file such as `d.c`, > then I must use `git interpret-trailers --in-place b/d.c` to add some > trailers. What happens without --in-place? Are the input files read correctly? > I think the original intention of `--in-place` is to modify a file similar to > "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE", so make it run at top-dir, but this is not reflected > in the git documentation. This at least confuses people who use this > option for the first time. Is it worth modifying? Or is there something > wrong with the design of `--in-place`? I haven't checked but there is perhaps a bug in create_in_place_tempfile() in "trailer.c".
