Re: [BUG] Spurious leading '/' in filename in "git diff --raw --relative=<subdirectory>"

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2010, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID: <201007051744.54266.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201007051015.26995.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> The output without '-r' (recurse into sub-trees) is even more strange
> 
>   $ git diff-tree --abbrev --raw HEAD --relative=sub
>   a3a8425fe5496c61921010cb1e7b455a1f52bb86
>   :040000 040000 e62aa6e... b5d4a43... M	
> 
> (that's a trailing TAB, and no filename).
> 
> What I expected was the following output:
> 
>   $ git diff-tree --abbrev --raw HEAD --relative=sub
>   a3a8425fe5496c61921010cb1e7b455a1f52bb86
>   :040000 040000 e62aa6e... b5d4a43... M	quux

If I change directory to 'sub', and use '--relative', it works correctly with '-r' (and doesn't show any output without '-r'):

    $ ( cd sub &&  git diff-tree --abbrev -r --raw HEAD --relative )
    a3a8425fe5496c61921010cb1e7b455a1f52bb86
    :100644 100644 d90bda0... cefcae0... M	quux

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland