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Re: [PATCH] get_sha1: support relative path ":path" syntax

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 15, 2010, 18:59 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> In the absence of programming errors, should all git command support
> <tree>:./<path> syntax to name an object, or are there cases where the
> relative does not make any sense?
>
> What I am trying to get at is that if this is diagnosing a user error, or
> if this is showing that the mechanism to implement the relative path is
> unnecessarily hard for the programmers to misuse.

The mistake should be obvious from the context, but I wanted to say with the last sentence "the mechanism is too hard for the programmers to use and easy to make mistakes."

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Message 9 of 12 in “Support relative path in <blah>:path syntax”
  1. 0/3 Support relative path in <blah>:path syntaxNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 11, 2010
  2. 1/3 setup: save prefix (original cwd relative to toplevel) in startup_infoNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 11, 2010
  3. 2/3 Make prefix_path() return char* without constNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 11, 2010
  4. 3/3 get_sha1: support relative path ":path" syntaxNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 11, 2010
  5. Thiago FarinaNov 14, 2010
  6. get_sha1: support relative path ":path" syntaxNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 15, 2010
  7. Sverre RabbelierNov 15, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2010
  10. get_sha1: support relative path ":path" syntaxNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 28, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2010
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 18, 2010

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