From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:43:52 GMT
Subject: Re: log/show: relative pathnames do not work in rev:path
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712182239500.23902@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071218222032.GH2875@steel.home>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> Jakub Narebski, Tue, Dec 18, 2007 22:24:26 +0100:
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
> >
> > > I think that we have parsing of the blob locators at the wrong 
> > > level: so that git-show, git-log and git-diff can handle its 
> > > pathnames as they handle path filters (relative to cwd),
> > 
> > What cwd? <path> in <tree-ish>:<path> syntax is "relative" to 
> > <tree-ish>.
> 
> But the act of running "git-show <tree-ish>:<path>" does have a working 
> directory relative to the project root.

Not necessarily.  My primary use of "git show <tree-ish>:<path>" (yes, I 
already use the dash-less form ;-) is in _bare_ repositories.

And I still maintain that expecting <tree-ish>:<path> to take the current 
relative path into account would be just like if you expected

	C:\> cd WINDOWS
	C:\WINDOWS> dir D:system32

to show you the contents of D:\WINDOWS\system32.

Or another, less Windowsy example:

	$ cd /usr/bin
	$ scp home:bash ./

No, this does not copy home:/usr/bin/bash but home:$HOME/bash.

Hth,
Dscho