From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:30:31 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree Message-ID: <4B0DCC27.4030702@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v4ooinnkx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > A Large Angry SCM writes: > >> But the users are almost always dealing with things (objects) that >> started as files, act like files and may be files again. Why should >> they not expect filesystem semantics. > > Do you truly want to see this? > > diff --git a/var/tmp/git/Makefile b/var/tmp/git/Makefile > index 5a0b3d4..e9b03a8 100644 > --- a/var/tmp/git/Makefile > +++ b/var/tmp/git/Makefile > @@ -1985,3 +1985,4 @@ coverage-report: > ... > > As long as you are talking about paths you communicate with git, your > root _is_ the root of the work tree, and it shouldn't matter where you > have your work tree. > > That is what I meant by "the root _in the context_". > Nice example for a command output. But what did the user specify on the command line?