Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-09 Thread Nazri Ramliy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:01:33AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reference. I did read that thread earlier. It doesn't really answer my question, but perhaps it's not terribly important since the interaction is

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com writes: Subject: git: run in a directory given with -C option This is similar in spirit to to make -C dir ... and tar -C dir The doubled-to to which I locally fixed when I queued the last one (together with other rewording to make it more agreeable and

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-09 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com writes: Subject: git: run in a directory given with -C option +-C path:: + Run as if git was started in 'path' instead of the current working + directory. When multiple '-C'

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-09 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: + echo initial in dir1/dir2 expected + git -C dir1/dir2 commit -m initial in dir1/dir2 to reduce possibilities of breaking this test in the future due to typos (e.g. somebody may want to say initial commit in

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-08 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: git: run in a directory given with -C option This is similar in spirit to to make -C dir ... and tar -C dir --- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 83edf30..ae049da 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-08 Thread Nazri Ramliy
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Eric Sunshine sunsh...@sunshineco.com wrote: For consistency with existing formatting in git.txt, you may want to squash in the following fixes (sans gmail whitespace damage): --- 8 --- [ diff snipped ] --- 8 --- Thanks. I'll submit a reroll later. +This

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-08 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Eric Sunshine sunsh...@sunshineco.com wrote: +This option affects options that expect path name like --git-dir and +--work-tree in that their interpretations of the path names would be +made

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-04 Thread Nazri Ramliy
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: I do not care too deeply either way, but I am curious if there was a reason why you changed the earlier directory to path? Somehow, when we _know_ a path has to be a directory, I find it easier on the readers to spell

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-04 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: I do not care too deeply either way, but I am curious if there was a reason why you changed the earlier directory to path? Somehow, when we _know_ a

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-04 Thread Nazri Ramliy
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:36:47PM +0800, Nazri Ramliy wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Does the above format correctly without the usual second and subsequent paragraphs are not indented, but has '+' in place of a blank line? No it doesn't.

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com writes: -- 8 -- Subject: [PATCH] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option This is similar in spirit to to make -C dir ... and tar -C dir Currently it takes more effort (keypresses) to invoke git command in a different directory than the

Re: [PATCH v3] Teach git to change to a given directory using -C option

2013-09-03 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Nazri Ramliy ayieh...@gmail.com writes: -- 8 -- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 83edf30..6105cb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git - the