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Re: gitk does not show path file list

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Nov 24, 2009, 07:57 UTC
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Mark Blakeney schrieb:
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> This seems to me to be a straight out bug but given I've had no response here
> and  given this is such a simple issue then I guess it's not a bug and I'm just
> missing something? Please somebody, why does gitk (usually) not show the subset
> list of files affected when you give it a path?
> 
> E.g. If I am in a src dir then "gitk ." does not list files. Neither does "gitk
> $PWD" nor "gitk ../src". However "cd ..; git src" does list files!?

gitk doesn't list the files in your examples because the patterns you gave are not initial substrings of any files in the list.

-- Hannes
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