Re: [PATCH 2/2] git status: show relative paths when run in a subdirectory

> On Nov 8, 2007 11:12 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > ---
> >
> >         This looks a bit ugly because quote_crlf() is now also called
> >         on the untracked files, which are not NUL terminated.
> >
> >         Maybe someone has an idea how to do this more elegantly.
> >
> >  builtin-runstatus.c |    1 +
> >  wt-status.c         |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  wt-status.h         |    1 +
> >  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> Tested, and looks good.
> 
> Now that I play with it, though, it seems that a few other bits of git
> need updating to handle relative paths okay:
> 
> $ cd gitweb/test
> $ rm ../../wt-status.h
>     [oops, what a silly thing to do -- better checkout the latest
> revision of it]
> $ git status
> # On branch next
> # Changed but not updated:
> #   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #
> #       deleted:    ../../wt-status.h
> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
> $ git checkout HEAD ../../wt-status.h
> fatal: git-ls-files: cannot generate relative filenames containing '..'
>     [grr....]
> $ cd ../..
> $ git checkout HEAD .
>     [that works]