my $color_author = 'magenta';
+# Aliases in Git with "! ..." are always run in the top-level-directory.
+# GIT_PREFIX contains the relative path to the current subdirectory. Thanks to
+# dr_lepper in #git on Freenode (2013-04-03 23:17) for telling me about
+# GIT_PREFIX.
+if (defined $ENV{GIT_PREFIX} and $ENV{GIT_PREFIX} ne '') {
+ chdir $ENV{GIT_PREFIX} or die $!;
+}
+
my $format = '%x00' # separator from --graph
. '%h' . '%x00' # abbreviated commit hash
. '%at' . '%x00' # author date