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Re: [PATCH/RFC] diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Feb 13, 2008, 00:09 UTC
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> No it isn't. The above doesn't even work for bare repositories, or when 
> you want to look at a branch that has a different directory structure than 
> the currently-checked-out one.

.. and I don't mean that as a theoretical thing. I don't personally use bare directories directly very much (I push to them, but I seldom do any other remote management than just repacking once in a while), but it _is_ a meaningful operation for various services like gitweb or gitk etc.

Obviously gitweb doesn't support that --relative thing right now, and maybe it never makes sense in that context, but it's actually really pleasant how many things *do* just "automatically work" with bare repositories etc.

So I simply don't think that we should assume a working directory for any basic git operation, unless that operation fundamentally needs one because it's only defined for a system with working directories (which is fairly rare, but obviously happens: "git reset --hard", "git pull/merge", "git checkout" etc).

			Linus
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