From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:49:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quote_path: convert empty path to "./"
Message-ID: <20071207204937.GA20111@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4759996B.2000300@gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:05:15PM -0500, Thomas Harning wrote:

> I concur.  There is one case that this seems to dodge.  What about the case 
> where you are in:
>
> /test/test_2  where /test  is not tracked...
>
> This should probably show "./../"   not just "./"   , right?

It already says "../", which is correct:

  $ git init
  $ mkdir test && cd test
  $ touch file
  $ mkdir test2 && cd test2
  $ git status
  ...
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
  #
  #       ../

There's no point in ever saying "./" _except_ in the case where the
output would be totally blank, since there is no way to tell that it is
an output line.

Personally, I don't like either the "../" or the "./", but I actually
think the relative paths are less readable than the full paths in
general.

-Peff