Re: log/show: relative pathnames do not work in rev:path

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> > where the magic is *not* done by any "SHA1 path lookup" at all, but is
> > simply done by the commit->tree lookup. At least at that point it would
> > make logical sense (although it would probably be quite painful to
> > implement).
>
> It is not just painful to implement.
>
> Although I can buy that purely from the user (read: people who do not
> know how the world works) experience point of view, you have to be extra
> careful if you do this.  There are existing codepaths that take a string
> that names a treeish from the end user, appends "^{tree}" to that
> string, and passes the result to get_sha1() to obtain a tree object name
> they want to operate on (the alternative is parse_tree_indirect() but it
> forces them to go through the object layer).  You will need to update
> these callers to keep them working from subdirectories.