working-directory

I am going through some Git tutorials. The concept of a " working directory " keeps being mentioned, however, none of the tutorials or documents I read points out where or what this " working directory " is. I have thought that it was actually the .git 's parent directory, a.k.a the directory I run git init in. But the video tutorial I am watching talks about the state of nothing to commit and " working directory clean ": In fact you can actually make a copy of the repository, and make that copy so that it does not have a working directory, this is actually called the bare clone. This is

I've created a new GitHub repository. I'm quite confused by working directory and local repository. When working on my own, my stuff all resides on working directory. But when work with repo, I should check my stuff there. But are they the same thing? or should they be separate. Then how to commit my stuff in working directory to my local repo. How to commit my local repo to remote repo. How to do this by Git Bash? Thanks! Alexey Voytenko Working directory is the directory with your source files under git control (in the root of all dirs under control .git file is present). Git is tracking the

I have a Windows service that should look for a configuration file in its current directory. So I use directory.getcurrentdirectiry() but instead of the service directory I get back c:\windows\system32 Any idea why and how should I get the service directory? Don't use Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() . I had the same exact problem with C:\Windows\System32 being returned. Use this instead: Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath); You can set the current directory to the directory that your service is running from by including this line in your code: System.IO.Directory

I have a common command that gets called from within very specific directories. There is only one executable sitting in /bin for this program, and the current working directory is very important for running it correctly. The script affects the files that live inside the directory it is run within. Now, I also have a custom shell script that does some things in one directory, but I need to call that command mentioned above as if it was in another directory. How do you do this in a shell script? You can use the cd builtin, or the pushd and popd builtins for this purpose. For example: # do

I'm running Ruby on Windows though I don't know if that should make a difference. All I want to do is get the current working directory's absolute path. Is this possible from irb? Apparently from a script it's possible using File.expand_path(__FILE__) But from irb I tried the following and got a "Permission denied" error: File.new(Dir.new(".").path).expand Dir.pwd seems to do the trick. http://ruby-doc.org/core/Dir.html#method-c-pwd Psylone File.expand_path File.dirname(__FILE__) will return the directory relative to the file this command is called from. But Dir.pwd returns the working