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Problem with git-gui and relative directories

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Aug 24, 2007, 13:40 UTC
Message-ID
<868x81vynk.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
Doing something like

mkdir -p junk/woozle cd junk git-init cd woozle echo "hooray" > plop git add plop git commit -m "x" git gui blame plop

errors out with
fatal: cannot stat path woozle/plop: No such file or directory
Obviously, git-gui is confused about relative paths here.
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David Kastrup
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