From ab16bac1dbe8c3c21049b52c5002930f6bde666e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Allen <michael@michaelallen.io>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:25:20 +0000
Subject: list files from the root, not current dir

---
 git-base.sh   | 2 +-
 test-files.sh | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-base.sh b/git-base.sh
index fbd7ef9..b08c820 100755
--- a/git-base.sh
+++ b/git-base.sh
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ is_dirty() {
       else
         #no commit hash, thus can't use HEAD.
         #As it's inital commit we can just list the files.
-        if [[ -n "$(ls -a -1 | grep -Ev '(\.|\.\.|\.git)')" ]]; then
+        if [[ -n "$(ls -a -1 "$(git_root)" | grep -Ev '(\.|\.\.|\.git)')" ]]; then
           #files listed and no commit hash, thus changes
           return 0
         else
diff --git a/test-files.sh b/test-files.sh
index 270ee3b..4c5e9c4 100755
--- a/test-files.sh
+++ b/test-files.sh
@@ -248,6 +248,12 @@ test_is_dirty() {
   touch foo
   assertTrue "untracked files" is_dirty
 
+  mkdir sneakSubDir
+  cd sneakSubDir
+  assertTrue "untracked files while in an empty sub dir" is_dirty
+
+  cd ../
+
   git add .
   assertTrue "staged addition files" is_dirty
 
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