From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:11:09 GMT Subject: [PATCH V3 2/2] Doc URLs: relative paths imply the dot-respository Message-ID: <1379776269-4496-3-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> In-Reply-To: <1379776269-4496-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley --- Documentation/urls.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 9ccb246..3469e8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies --local option. endif::git-clone[] +Relative paths are relative to the current directory. Hence while the +path: + +- '.' + +is the current directory, it is also the current repository and acts +as if it were a repository named `'.'`. + When Git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it attempts to use the 'remote-' remote helper, if one exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax -- 1.8.1.msysgit.1