From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:52:48 GMT
Subject: Re: rev-parse doesn't take pwd into consideration
Message-ID: <20080526205248.GB23396@bit.office.eurotux.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080526201842.GA8194@mithlond.arda.local>

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:18:42PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Luciano Rocha wrote (2008-05-26 20:58 +0100):
> 
> > Is it difficult to make rev-parse accept relative path specifications?
> 
> I don't know but let's consider this: The revision user is asking for
> with "git show <commit>:<path>" may not even contain the directory user
> is currently in. Also, there may not be any working directory at all, or
> user may be completely outside the repository and using "git
> --git-dir=/somewhere/else". I guess the system is much simpler as the
> "<commit>:" always refers to repository's root.

If <commit>:<path> is valid assuming the repository's root, then use it.
If it isn't, try <commit>:<path_to_git_root>/<path>.

> If you are using Git's bash completions it's easy to complete paths with
> "git show <commit>:". For example, try

I find bash-completion more an hassle than useful, thanks anyway.

>   $ git show HEAD~10:Docum<tab>
> 
> and the path is completed.

But a user usually thinks relative to the current directory, not to the
project's root.

But I should check the archives before any further discussion, as Junio
C Hamano observed.

Thanks for your input.

-- 
Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>