Re: [PATCH 6/8] ls-tree: work from subdirectory.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 27, 2005, 18:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20051127182244.GK22159@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511270949540.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 07:01:37PM CET, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...

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> If you use "-r", it acts the way you'd expect. If you _don't_ use "-r", it 
> acts strangely, but very consistently with git-diff-tree: it only ever 
> shows the _first_ part of a pathname. So
> 
> 	git-ls-tree HEAD drivers/char/
> 
> should show just one entry: "drivers". While adding a "-r" should show all 
> files under drivers (and the trees leading up to it).
> 
> And yes, you're right. That's a much bigger change by my suggested diff, 
> and more likely to cause confusion.

Ugh. That's really weird. Wouldn't a better approach be to fix git-ls-files to behave more sanely? (That is, listing the entry for drivers/char instead of drivers?)

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