Re: Incorrect git-blame result if I use full path to file

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 3, 2007, 18:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712031807410.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712030922250.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> It [the patch] makes "get_pathspec()" make all the paths it returns 
> relative, if it can. HOWEVER! I think it should actually die() if it 
> sees an absolute path that it cannot convert (because it really cannot 
> do anything sane about it), but I commented that out for now because 
> that requires some test case change: right now we actually have a few 
> test cases for insane filename arguments, and they expect the old 
> behaviour.

I have the slight suspicion that this could break diff --no-index. And it does not contain any symlink resolution, right?

Ciao, Dscho