From: Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:03:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simple support for tree entry specification with relative pathnames
Message-ID: <56b7f5510712181303h1e7ae35dpa0adfd6804a7cecd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071218204752.GD2875@steel.home>

ACK from me...

I submitted a similar patch last May 4 which also
changed sha1_name.c to do this.  The patch
added a config variable to control this
(probably not desirable).  The patch also handled
leading/embedded . and .. .

In p4 you can say
  p4 <operation> file#rev
and file is interpreted relatively.

I wanted to be able to say
  git <operation> tree:file
and have file interpreted relatively.
This should only happen when you are inside the work tree.

Good luck!

Dana

On Dec 18, 2007 12:47 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> This allows git show to understand something like this:
>
>     $ test -f DIR/file && cd DIR &&  git show rev:file
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> This is a bit too simplistic and can be fooled easily:
>
>     .../t$ git show HEAD:../t/test-lib.sh
>
> wont work. It is short, though.

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Dana L. How  danahow@gmail.com  +1 650 804 5991 cell