From: David Symonds Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:16:59 GMT Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with git log Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <47325415.1070205@op5.se> On Nov 8, 2007 11:11 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > David Symonds wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2007 10:19 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > >> However, Dave's suggestion of altering git-status output to be > >> relative to (but not limited by) CWD has merit. Too bad I don't have > >> time to work on it right now. > > > > I am happy to hack on this if there's not widespread revolt against the concept. > > > > I'd definitely like that feature, but I wonder how many people will run > "git commit -a" in a subdir after seeing only what they want to see in the > output, and then accidentally committing junk somewhere else in the repo. I never suggested path *limited*, only path *relative*. git-status would still show all the same files, but their paths would be relative to your current directory, so there'd be no confusion like you mentioned. This is how Johannes' patch works. Dave.