From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:20:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree
Message-ID: <7v4ooinnkx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B0DC8F7.1000509@gmail.com>

A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:

> But the users are almost always dealing with things (objects) that
> started as files, act like files and may be files again. Why should
> they not expect filesystem semantics.

Do you truly want to see this?

    diff --git a/var/tmp/git/Makefile b/var/tmp/git/Makefile
    index 5a0b3d4..e9b03a8 100644
    --- a/var/tmp/git/Makefile
    +++ b/var/tmp/git/Makefile
    @@ -1985,3 +1985,4 @@ coverage-report:
    ...

As long as you are talking about paths you communicate with git, your
root _is_ the root of the work tree, and it shouldn't matter where you
have your work tree.

That is what I meant by "the root _in the context_".