From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:42:15 GMT
Subject: Re: log/show: relative pathnames do not work in rev:path
Message-ID: <20071219074215.GB2957@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510712181752s7ecebca9m32794c635cba9fd@mail.gmail.com>

Dana How, Wed, Dec 19, 2007 02:52:23 +0100:
> Given that the root of the current working tree,  the commit, the cwd,
> and the path (suffix) given on the command line are all known precisely,
> it does not seem dangerous to come up with an exact rule to combine them
> which is only triggered by some specific syntax.
> 
> This does not need to work in bare repositories.
> 

And it wont in both patches (your and mine): they don't have prefix
(aka cwd) at all. The bare repos are just no problem, the pathnames
there are always project-absolute.