From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:28:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use.
Message-ID: <7vtznwxl59.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <11945685732608-git-send-email-dsymonds@gmail.com>

David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
> ---
> 	Test 5 in this series fails because of a bug in git-ls-files, where
> 		git-ls-files t/../
> 	(with or without --full-name) returns no files.

Heh, you shouldn't do that ;-)

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.