From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:14:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Relative ls-files
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=OJ_o2WQ2W6d30HXQZrg7=W70+fZWrbQPrAs=s@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7hbqgc7g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> and the answer is git ls-files --with-tree=<treeish> | grep <regex> .
>> But the --with-tree param is so counterintuitive to me that I read the
>> manpage, everytime.
>
> 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"?

(off topic?)

"ls-tree -r" does not understand wildcards. Maybe it should not, but I
think read_tree_recursive() should use tree_entry_interesting(). The
function it uses for matching, match_tree_entry, looks like another
variant of t_e_interesting.
-- 
Duy