From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:47:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] files given on the command line are relative to $cwd
Message-ID: <7v8wv9jgw4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080807090341.GA6421@bit.office.eurotux.com>

Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>> >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> 
>> Junio> When running "git commit -F file" and "git tag -F file" from a
>> Junio> subdirectory, we should take it as relative to the directory we
>> Junio> started from, not relative to the top-level directory.
>> 
>> Don't we have the same problem with "git show"? If you go into
>> the "gitweb" directory of the GIT source, "git show HEAD:README" will
>> show you the toplevel "README" instead of the one in the "gitweb"
>> directory.
>
> No, git show has different semantics. It has been discussed often in
> this list.

You are half correct --- it is not show but tree:path syntax.