Re: Inconsistencies with git log

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 8, 2007, 00:16 UTC
Message-ID: <4732556F.30105@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711071609t3e5412f1mf02e501b2d820bb3@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:

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> On 11/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> It is consistent, when you realise that the path arguments are interpreted
>> relative to the project root.
> 
> Then why doesn't this work?
> 
> jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git log Documentation
> all the log for Documentation....
> jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ cd Documentation
> jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b/Documentation$ git log Documentation
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'Documentation': unknown revision or path
> not in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
> jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b/Documentation$
>

Because your current working directory, relative to the project root, is prepended to the path you're in, so git sees "Documentation/Documentation". I'm unsure why

	cd Documentation; git log -- /Documentation

doesn't do the trick though. I know that particular trick used to work for some other command a while back anyways.

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