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

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Dana How wrote:
> > I'd like to move some stuff currently in a p4 repository into git.
> > The directory structure within the repo is 13 levels deep;
> > I didn't design it nor can I change it.
> >
> > ...  The
> > basic commit:file syntax doesn't accept relative paths.  I am not
> > specifically hung up on the commit:./path syntax;  I just want some
> > notation that will get those 13 directories from $cwd instead of
> > making me type them again.
>
> I think new feature like this should be postponed after 1.5.4 is out;
> we are now in feature freeze (only bugfixes are accepted).

> That said, does git-showrel solution proposed by  Johannes Schindelin
> in
>   Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712182250040.23902@racer.site>
>   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68840
> work for you?
>
> Below version of git-showrel script which uses proposed 'commit:./relpath'
> syntax (it could be improved, of course):
>
> cat > git-showrel <<\EOF
> #!/bin/sh
>
> rel=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix 2>/dev/null)
> git show $(echo "$@" | sed -e "s!:./!:${rel}!")
>
> EOF