From: Tim Henigan Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:38:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: contrib/diffall: comment actual reason for 'cdup' X-Git-Tag: v1.7.10-rc2~11^2~4 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a22a9477fcd64a58fafc75d12320cda2c3ce9dbb;p=git.git contrib/diffall: comment actual reason for 'cdup' The comment from an earlier commit did not reflect the actual reason this operation is needed. Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/contrib/diffall/git-diffall b/contrib/diffall/git-diffall index 9bbd27f4a..d706a6dee 100755 --- a/contrib/diffall/git-diffall +++ b/contrib/diffall/git-diffall @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ fi start_dir=$(pwd) -# needed to access tar utility +# All the file paths returned by the diff command are relative to the root +# of the working copy. So if the script is called from a subdirectory, it +# must switch to the root of working copy before trying to use those paths. cdup=$(git rev-parse --show-cdup) && cd "$cdup" || { echo >&2 "Cannot chdir to $cdup, the toplevel of the working tree"