From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 23:09:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705070108380.4167@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070506185259.GF30511@admingilde.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 6 May 2007, Martin Waitz wrote:

> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 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").
> 
> so what?

So what: it proves that your case is wrong. mw/submodules~10/README would 
be _severely_ confused.

Ciao,
Dscho