From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:40:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] files given on the command line are relative to $cwd
Message-ID: <20080806204002.GB903@artemis.madism.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr692oufw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:43:47PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> When running "git commit -F file" and "git tag -F file" from a
> subdirectory, we should take it as relative to the directory we started
> from, not relative to the top-level directory.
> 
> This adds a helper function "parse_options_fix_filename()" to make it more
> convenient to fix this class of issues.  Ideally, parse_options() should
> support a new type of option, "OPT_FILENAME", to do this uniformly, but
> this patch is meant to go to 'maint' to fix it minimally.

  I'm going in vacation tomorrow so I'm not likely to do that soon, but
I agree it's sensible.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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