From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:48:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use.
Message-ID: <200711092048.34868.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtznwxl59.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

fredag 09 november 2007 skrev Junio C Hamano:
> David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 	Test 5 in this series fails because of a bug in git-ls-files, where
> > 		git-ls-files t/../
> > 	(with or without --full-name) returns no files.
> 
> Heh, you shouldn't do that ;-)
> 
> Seriously, that's a long standing limitation in the code, not to
> deal with arbitrary combination of ups and downs, but I do not
> think there is any fundamental reason to disallow something
> like:
> 
> 	cd Documentation && git ls-files --full-name ../t
> 
> Patches welcome.

I'm for allowing it, but then it should really be all over, not just some arbitrary
command. Everywhere or not at all.

-- robin