From: Samuel Tardieu Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:45:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] files given on the command line are relative to $cwd Message-ID: <2008-08-07-10-45-21+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> In-Reply-To: <7vr692oufw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: Junio> When running "git commit -F file" and "git tag -F file" from a Junio> subdirectory, we should take it as relative to the directory we Junio> started from, not relative to the top-level directory. Don't we have the same problem with "git show"? If you go into the "gitweb" directory of the GIT source, "git show HEAD:README" will show you the toplevel "README" instead of the one in the "gitweb" directory. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/