From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:38:04 GMT
Subject: Re: something fishy with Git commit and log from file
Message-ID: <7v3alirw6b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4899848C.6030800@obry.net>

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> So definitely a Git bug! Can be reproduced with:
>
>    $ mkdir repo && cd repo
>    $ git init
>    $ mkdir dir
>    $ cd dir
>    $ echo file > file
>    $ echo log > log
>    $ git add file
>    $ git commit --file=log
>    fatal: could not read log file 'log': No such file or directory

Try it without cding down to "dir".