git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree.

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jul 21, 2008, 00:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20080721002248.GJ10151@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<7vljzw14br.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:14:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I never thought you would think "showing relative to tree-root" is even an
> option.
I assume you mean "not filtering relative to tree-root"?
> That would make it inconsistent with not just the established
> semantics of what the plumbing did, but also with what ls-files does.

But ls-files always works on the index; ls-tree can work on trees, and when you're inspecting a non-root tree object from within a subdirectory, this behaviour can be rather unexpected. But as I said, I'm fine with just documenting it.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know
its true name.  -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 18 of 20 in “Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree.”
  1. Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree.Steve Frécinaux, Jul 20, 2008
  2. Petr BaudisJul 20, 2008
  3. Steve FrécinauxJul 20, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2008
  5. Petr BaudisJul 20, 2008
  6. Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt: Add a caveat about prefixing pathspecPetr Baudis, Jul 21, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2008
  8. Petr BaudisJul 21, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2008
  10. Petr BaudisJul 22, 2008
  11. Petr BaudisJul 28, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2008
  14. Steve FrécinauxJul 21, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2008
  16. Petr BaudisJul 21, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2008
  18. Petr BaudisJul 21, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2008
  20. Petr BaudisJul 21, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.