From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:54:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use. Message-ID: <7vd4ukxjxn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: "David Symonds" writes: > On Nov 9, 2007 12:28 PM, Junio C Hamano 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.