From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:22:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree.
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.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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