Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 6, 2007, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705061653100.4015@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vwszmfod8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> (a) In a bare repository, I believe 
> >> setup.c:setup_git_directory_gently() determines the prefix to be 
> >> NULL.  This means my patch will see ALL paths as absolute, except 
> >> :../path which will result in an error.
> >
> > My point was that it feels inconsistent to take the current path into 
> > account in one case, but not in the other.
> 
> I do not understand your reasoning.  In a bare repository you cannot 
> even be in a subdirectory to begin with.

Exactly! That is my point. If you can do it in a working directory, but also with a bare repository, I find it highly confusing and inconsistent to have different meaning.

Ciao, Dscho