From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 19:22:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support ent:relative_path
Message-ID: <7v1whwtmvj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705042104370.4015@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> FWIW I still find that unintuitive. I know "<something>:<path>" from ssh, 
> and there it does not change meaning depending on where I am. IMHO in most 
> cases you want to use git-diff anyway, which _does_ honour the current 
> relative path.

There, its meaning is relative to where you are, namely "$HOME".