From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:05:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Git accept absolute path names for files within the work tree
Message-ID: <7v3aupzu09.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200711290215.34237.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> writes:

> Maybe we should have a boolean indicating whether the arguments refer
> to filespecs or not to make this clear or rewite the mingw fallouts in
> some other way.

I wondered the same, but my vote would be to make them separate
functions.  You would need a function to abstract out pasting of paths
to ease MinGW people even without this "ah absolute -- let's make it
relative to work tree first" hack, anyway.