From a22a9477fcd64a58fafc75d12320cda2c3ce9dbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Henigan Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:38:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- contrib/diffall/git-diffall | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/diffall/git-diffall b/contrib/diffall/git-diffall index 9bbd27f4a5..d706a6dee3 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"