From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:28:57 GMT
Subject: Re: lstat() call in rev-parse.c
Message-ID: <E1FYlwn-0005mf-CL@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604230906370.3701@g5.osdl.org>

> So the rule is: if you don't give that "--", then we have to be able to 
> confirm that the filenames are really files. Not a misspelled revision 
> name, or a revision name that was correctly spelled, but for the wrong 
> project, because you were in the wrong subdirectory ;)

Shouldn't git rev-parse try to stat the file (additionally?) in the
current directory instead of the top git directory? git (diff|log|..)
seem to fail everytime in a subdirectory without --.