From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:57:16 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk does not show path file list
Message-ID: <4B0B91DC.1020902@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20091124T060334-836@post.gmane.org>

Mark Blakeney schrieb:
> 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