From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:40:46 GMT Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with git log Message-ID: <473311DE.3070201@op5.se> In-Reply-To: David Symonds wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 11:11 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> David Symonds wrote: >>> On Nov 8, 2007 10:19 AM, Brian Gernhardt 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. > Ah, that'd be a different matter entirely then. Thanks for clarifying. I have no further objections then. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231