Re: [PATCH] Use pathexpand to preparse the relative pathnames in blob references

From: Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 21:06 UTC
Message-ID: <56b7f5510712181306k13e8b06dt35313e09727a8f59@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071218205253.GF2875@steel.home>

On Dec 18, 2007 12:52 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> This, OTOH, is a bit intrusive and changes the current behaviour a bit
> too far. git-show cannot use the absolute pathnames in blob locators
> at all now, which I consider bad. An obvious way to use rev:/path is
> blocked by Johannes' get_sha1_oneline. It would have worked, though.

Last May Junio proposed the current :/ should be changed to :? since it actually searches backwards. Then :/ would be an absolute path, and : could default to relative (like Unix command line).

Because of this incompatibility I think he wanted to delay it until 1.5.6 or 1.6 (see old thread).

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