Re: Inconsistencies with git log

> On Nov 8, 2007 11:11 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
>> David Symonds wrote:
>>> On Nov 8, 2007 10:19 AM, Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> wrote:
>>>> However, Dave's suggestion of altering git-status output to be
>>>> relative to (but not limited by) CWD has merit.  Too bad I don't have
>>>> time to work on it right now.
>>> I am happy to hack on this if there's not widespread revolt against the concept.
>>>
>> I'd definitely like that feature, but I wonder how many people will run
>> "git commit -a" in a subdir after seeing only what they want to see in the
>> output, and then accidentally committing junk somewhere else in the repo.
> 
> I never suggested path *limited*, only path *relative*. git-status
> would still show all the same files, but their paths would be relative
> to your current directory, so there'd be no confusion like you
> mentioned. This is how Johannes' patch works.
>