Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use.

> David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >       Test 5 in this series fails because of a bug in git-ls-files, where
> >               git-ls-files t/../
> >       (with or without --full-name) returns no files.
>
> Heh, you shouldn't do that ;-)
>
> Seriously, that's a long standing limitation in the code, not to
> deal with arbitrary combination of ups and downs, but I do not
> think there is any fundamental reason to disallow something
> like:
>
>         cd Documentation && git ls-files --full-name ../t
>
> Patches welcome.