From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:18:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [PATCH] gitk: fix the display of files when filtered by path
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr6rVaX_=SZZeEAs950yuNDvi8sOkzrUK7LnCrK6MYfscg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87hb14wg4l.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Pat Thoyts
<patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Launching 'gitk -- .' or 'gitk -- ..\t' restricts the display to files
> under the given directory but the file list is left empty. This is because
> the path_filter function fails to match the filenames which are relative
> to the working tree to the filter which is filessytem relative.
> This solves the problem by making both names fully qualified filesystem
> paths before performing the comparison.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

Wonderful!

I've run into this problem a number of times (as have some co-workers)
but I never bothered to report it since I felt guilty for never having
worked up a patch.

I tested this and it worked.

FWIW,

Tested-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>


Thank you Pat!
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            David