From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:02:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting path to a file from arbitrary project directory
Message-ID: <d20ac97bbb82256732e15cdc512709db98d1da88.camel@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzg4qbj4y.fsf@gitster.g>

Thank you, it works!

On Fri, 2023-06-23 at 02:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > 1: the usecase is I have a Emacs helper function to pick up a an
> > aribtrarily mangled path to a file in the project from the primary
> > clipboard and open that file. It's often "mangled", because gdb
> > prints it with `../`, then logs print no path whatsoever, just a
> > filename… So it's generally useful to have.
> 
> Sounds like you are looking for the top (and possibly glob) magic
> pathspec, e.g. in the source tree of Git itself, I can go a few
> levels down into a random directory and get exactly the same listing
> of two files whose name is "rerere.c" located in two directories:
> 
>     $ cd t/helper
>     $ git ls-files --full-name ':(top,glob)**/rerere.c'
>     builtin/rerere.c
>     rerere.c
> 
> Look for magic pathspec in "git help glossary" to learn more.
> 
>