From: Dana How Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:06:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use pathexpand to preparse the relative pathnames in blob references Message-ID: <56b7f5510712181306k13e8b06dt35313e09727a8f59@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071218205253.GF2875@steel.home> On Dec 18, 2007 12:52 PM, Alex Riesen 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). -- Dana L. How danahow@gmail.com +1 650 804 5991 cell