From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 00:59:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705060259460.4015@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070505211857.GE30511@admingilde.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Martin Waitz wrote:

> hoi :)
> 
> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:17:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > we could also introduce "<tree-ish>/<path>" for absolute path entries.
> > 
> > When you name the tree-ish with usual "branch name", where does
> > the branch name end and pathname start?  What happens when there
> > is an ambiguity, and how costly to detect such an ambiguity to
> > begin with?
> 
> well, if you know that it starts with a tree-ish there is no
> ambiguity [...]

Wrong. For example, mw/submodules~10 _is_ a tree-ish (if you have a branch 
named "mw/submodules").

Hth,
Dscho