From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:24:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [TopGit PATCH] tg-patch: fix invocation in sub working tree directory
Message-ID: <7vwsapt2rw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90903161625x317556f4hc826aabd01494ca0@mail.gmail.com>

Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 23:33, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> tg patch won't work in a sub directory of the working tree, because 'git diff
>>> --name-only' prints the names relative to the top working tree.
>>
>> "diff --relative --name-only"?
>
> No, unfortunately. In my bug case the changed file was in another
> subtree, and --relative restricts the output to only files under the
> current subtree.

Ah, Ok, then insertion of cdup output does make sense (after all cdup was
designed to be used that way).