Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 6, 2007, 06:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwszmfod8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705051637450.4015@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> (a) In a bare repository, I believe setup.c:setup_git_directory_gently()
>> determines the prefix to be NULL.  This means my patch will see
>> ALL paths as absolute,  except :../path which will result in an error.
>
> My point was that it feels inconsistent to take the current path into 
> account in one case, but not in the other.

I do not understand your reasoning. In a bare repository you cannot even be in a subdirectory to begin with.