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| -rwxr-xr-x | contrib/diffall/git-diffall | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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" |