Re: [PATCH] Support ent:relative_path

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2007, 08:47 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0705040147h1bab8f6ao3ce2c486637a0d4f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7irpuhhr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/4/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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>  (1) we say it was a mistake that we did not make it relative to
>      the current directory when we introduced the X:<path>
>      syntax (X could be empty or :[0-3]: for index, or a commit
>      or tree object name), and change the semantics in a future
>      major release for everybody, apologizing for potentially
>      breaking existing scripts; or

That would be my first prio preference

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>  (2) keep the current behaviour as is, and come up with a
>      different syntax to use relative; or
>
>  (3) do nothing.
>
> My preference is (2), (3) and then (1), but I do not have
> offhand a suggestion for a good metacharacter we could use.

"./" :)