From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:03:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] files given on the command line are relative to $cwd
Message-ID: <20080807090341.GA6421@bit.office.eurotux.com>
In-Reply-To: <2008-08-07-10-45-21+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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.

No, git show has different semantics. It has been discussed often in
this list.

For instance:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68786/focus=68852

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