Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: May 5, 2007, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20070505211857.GE30511@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7k3hvog.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

hoi :)

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:17:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > we could also introduce "<tree-ish>/<path>" for absolute path entries.
> 
> When you name the tree-ish with usual "branch name", where does
> the branch name end and pathname start?  What happens when there
> is an ambiguity, and how costly to detect such an ambiguity to
> begin with?

well, if you know that it starts with a tree-ish there is no ambiguity as there can't be any "a/b" tree-ish if there already is one named "a". But Alex is right, it can be confused with an relative path if e.g. git-log is used without "--".

But for submodules I'd really like the / syntax.

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Martin Waitz