From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:31:41 GMT Subject: Re: Current status toward 0.99.5 and beyond Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vmzn8poc8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > So far, the following commands should be usable with relative directory > paths: > > update-cache > ls-files > diff-files > diff-cache > diff-tree Also, git-rev-parse. Finally, this trivial patch makes "git-rev-list" also able to handle not being in the top-level directory, which makes it possible to do "git log" and "git-whatchanged" at any point in the directory structure. Linus --- Subject: Make "git-rev-list" work within subdirectories This trivial patch makes ""git-rev-list" able to handle not being in the top-level directory. This magically also makes "git-whatchanged" do the right thing. Trivial scripting fix to make sure that "git log" also works. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/git-log-script b/git-log-script --- a/git-log-script +++ b/git-log-script @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ #!/bin/sh -. git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive" -revs=$(git-rev-parse --revs-only --default HEAD "$@") +revs=$(git-rev-parse --revs-only --default HEAD "$@") || exit [ "$revs" ] || die "No HEAD ref" git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@") | LESS=-S ${PAGER:-less} diff --git a/rev-list.c b/rev-list.c --- a/rev-list.c +++ b/rev-list.c @@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ static void handle_one_commit(struct com int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct commit_list *list = NULL; + const char *prefix = setup_git_directory(); int i, limited = 0; for (i = 1 ; i < argc; i++) {