From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:56:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Enable tree (directory) history display
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602271154400.22647@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060227185554.75822.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> 
> This patch allows history display of whole trees/directories,
> a la "git-rev-list HEAD <dir or file>", but somewhat
> slower, since exported git repository doesn't have
> the files checked out so we have to use
> "$gitbin/git-rev-list $hash | $gitbin/git-diff-tree -r --stdin \'$file_name\'"

No no. 

Just use 

	git-rev-list $hash -- $file_name

where the "--" is the important part.

As a usability-enhancer, you can leave out the "--" to separate filenames 
and other things, but when you leave out the "--", git requires that the 
filenames exist.

		Linus