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Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 9, 2007, 01:54 UTC
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"David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Nov 9, 2007 12:28 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Seriously, that's a long standing limitation in the code, not to
>> deal with arbitrary combination of ups and downs, but I do not
>> think there is any fundamental reason to disallow something
>> like:
>>
>>         cd Documentation && git ls-files --full-name ../t
>>
>> Patches welcome.
>
> So you're otherwise happy with my tests, despite one of them
> triggering an (unrelated to git-checkout) bug? Or would you prefer I
> remove that particular failure from the tests and resend?

Are you really asking my preference? A patch to ls-files to make the test pass is my preference, of course ;-).

Haven't read your tests, though, but I see capable people already commented on the initial round so I do not expect it to be problematic.

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Message 5 of 15 in “git-checkout: Support relative paths containing "..".”
  1. git-checkout: Support relative paths containing "..".David Symonds, Nov 9, 2007
  2. git-checkout: Test for relative path use.David Symonds, Nov 9, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2007
  4. David SymondsNov 9, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2007
  6. David SymondsNov 9, 2007
  7. Robin RosenbergNov 9, 2007
  8. Johannes SixtNov 9, 2007
  9. David SymondsNov 9, 2007
  10. git-checkout: Test for relative path use.David Symonds, Nov 9, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2007
  12. David SymondsNov 9, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2007
  14. David SymondsNov 9, 2007
  15. git-checkout: Test for relative path use.David Symonds, Nov 9, 2007

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