From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:24:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Relative ls-files
Message-ID: <7vy645g8qk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinGedXLX_rZTtx6CeDonQ0dbsN2BBSqPcs258Yg@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Because --with-tree nor ls-files is the tool that was designed for.
>>
>> If you want to find out about a branch, why aren't you using "ls-tree -r"?
>
> Thanks! Tab-completion wasn't showing it, so I never saw it.

Going back to your original (which I suspect may be different from John
Tapsell's original):

 - is this file in branch foo?
 - has this file moved in branch foo?
 - what files with extension .zoo exist in branch foo?

I am not sure what the difference between the first two question, but the
most direct way the scripted Porcelains do to answer these questions is:

	git rev-parse --verify "foo:$the_path"

The third question can be answered by listing paths in branch 'foo' and
looking for .zoo, like so:

	git ls-tree -r --name-only --full-tree foo | grep '\.zoo$'