Re: [BUG?] Path limiting in "git log" when run from another subdir

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Sep 24, 2012, 13:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CALKQrgfb8qbeKmCzri27iA1qk9H8R4FgyA-YsUQf_JQRWvGK4g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CECnFbkD6QFWiDMxz6J4mOngrmHPwjuXvsFBUXhNc1_w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:
>> The following works in the git.git repo:
>>
>> $ cd t
>> $ git log -- /Documentation
>> [...]
>>
>
> What version? Mine (recent master) does not work
>
> ~/w/git/t $ ../git log -- /Documentation
> fatal: '/Documentation' is outside repository

We initially found it on 1.7.9.5, and conrfirmed it on various 1.7.10 versions. A bisect reveals that this behavior changed in v1.7.11.5-35-gf4c21e8 (Michael Haggerty: real_path(): properly handle nonexistent top-level paths).

Does this mean that "git log -- /Documentation" never should have worked in the first place (and was "fixed" by this commit), or that it should work (but was broken by this commit)?

In any case, what is the _preferred_ way to path-limit "git log" to Documentation/RelNotes, when my cwd is t/?

Thanks for your help,

...Johan

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>> but the following does not:
>>
>> $ cd t
>> $ git log -- /Documentation/RelNotes
>> fatal: Could not switch to '/Documentation': No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> Is this the intended behavior?
> --
> Duy

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