From: John Szakmeister Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:19:45 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit: allow partial commits with relative paths Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4E2FE024.2030204@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: [snip] > I can't reproduce that name truncation with a current git, btw. (So I > won't bother bisecting where we removed a spurious offset by "prefix".) I can: :: git --version git version 1.7.6.347.g4db0d :: git init reproduce-bug Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jszakmeister/tmp/reproduce-bug/.git/ :: cd reproduce-bug :: echo foo > foo.txt :: mkdir bar :: echo bar bar/bar.txt bar bar/bar.txt :: git add . :: git commit -m '.' [master (root-commit) a5f76f1] . 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 bar/bar.txt create mode 100644 foo.txt :: cd bar :: git rm ../foo.txt rm 'foo.txt' :: git commit ../foo.txt error: pathspec 'txt' did not match any file(s) known to git. -John