Let amend mode load previous commit message even if the editor's working dir is outside the repo #201
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The path to the ".git" directory returned by git rev-parse --git-dir and stored in "b:magit_git_dir", can be a relative one, which would not work for opening file "COMMIT_EDITMSG" when the currently edited file was opened from outside the repository, so we make "b:magit_git_dir" absolute via "git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir". Thanks to user v-slava for suggesting the use of --absolute-git-dir.
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I often work with repositories that depend on each other, but are meant to reside in sibling directories (I cannot change this structure).
To make grepping all the repositories at once, I usually start neovim from the common parent directory, but then trying to amend a commit with CA, fails to load the previous message as described in #200.
This pull request tries to address this by invoking fnamemodify(git_dir, ':p') on the path returned by the previous call to
git rev-parse --git-dir
making it absolute.
In my tests this approach works when opening the file from: