Re: `git log relative_path_to_object` does not respect the --work-tree path

From: Roberto Eduardo Decurnex Gorosito <decurnex.roberto@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 30, 2014, 12:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CABj5xzdXZRorQu=8CBiYFt058kVQVzfFXSYzXDYofFN06u4Hpw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140929205612.GQ1175@google.com>

Ok. Yes, it 's kind of tricky. But the `-- <path>` does both things.

`-- <path>` looks for the relative path within the current directory but defaults to the work-tree root if your current directory does not belong to the repo.

About `git -C <dir>`, awesome feature, I love that, but it's not my point. (and I'm actually maintaining the ruby-git gem, supporting git

>= 1.6 T_T)

I really appreciate your feedback.

Regards, -- Roberto Decurnex

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Roberto,
>
> Roberto Eduardo Decurnex Gorosito wrote:
>
>> When passing objects to the `git log`, by just naming them or using
>> the `--objects` option, relative paths are evaluated using the current
>> working directory instead of the current working tree path.
>
> Why should they be relative to the worktree root?  When you use
> relative paths within a worktree, they are not relative to the
> worktree root.  For example, the following works within a clone of
> git.git:
>
>         $ cd Documentation
>         $ git log git.txt
>
> You might be looking for 'git -C <directory>', which chdirs to the
> named directory so paths are relative to there.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan