From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:31:54 GMT Subject: Re: Unapplied patches reminder Message-ID: <7v63aci8id.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20091019052030.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Nanako Shiraishi writes: > Junio, I saw these patches and thought what they try to do were > sensible, but I don't them in your tree. I didn't see much discussion > on most of them, either. > > Because I don't read C very well, I may have listed some patches > here that you may have discarded because the code was no good, and > if so I apologize for wasting your time, but I thought at least > some of them should be salvaged. > ... > From: Jeff King > Subject: Re: [BUG?] git-cvsimport: path to cvspsfile > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:14:29 -0400 > Message-ID: <20090923191428.GA30104@coredump.intra.peff.net> > > Bug. The script does a chdir() and then looks at the cvspsfile later. I > think "-A" would have the same problem. Here is a totally untested patch > to address the issue. Johannes, will this is_absolute_path actually work > on Windows? I think The Right Way would be to use > File::Spec::file_name_is_absolute, but I haven't checked whether that is > part of core perl and if so, which version it appeared in. My understanding of this is that it is a typical "how about this" that is still waiting for a follow-up discussion that will result in an eventual solution. > From: Junio C Hamano > Subject: Re: Q: supplying large sets of path to git commands > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:08:07 -0700 > Message-ID: <7vtyxzrnzs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> > > Here is how one might implement it for diff/log family of commands that > use "setup_revisions()". > > I didn't test it (of course) beyond running > > ./git diff --name-only HEAD | ./git diff --stdin-paths --stat -p Ditto.