Fixes broken diffs posted by post-review in subdirs of a git svn work-tree

Review Request #756 — Created March 2, 2009 and submitted

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Fixes broken diffs posted by post-review in subdirs of a git svn work-tree
Probably not elegant, but it's simple and works.

There is a --relative option to the git diff command since 1.5.5.x, but many default installation of git for linux is still stuck at 1.5.2.x, so the cd approach is used. However, I want to point out that this is not bullet proof as git can have GIT_DIR defined elsewhere (outside the work tree). But my patch would work for typical installations. Suggestions are welcome, of course.

 
SM
  1. ok
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LL
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Fixes broken diffs posted by post-review in subdirs of a git svn work-tree

    Probably not elegant, but it's simple and works.

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There is a --relative option to the git diff command since 1.5.5.x, but many default installation of git for linux is still stuck at 1.5.2.x, so the cd approach is used. However, I want to point out that this is not bullet proof as git can have GIT_DIR defined elsewhere (outside the work tree). But my patch would work for typical installations. Suggestions are welcome, of course.

chipx86
  1. I haven't hit this issue, but I can see how it could cause problems. Looks good, except I changed the two chdirs to one, using the parent directory of the git directory.
    
    Committed as r1811. Thanks!
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