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Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2017, 20:19 UTC
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Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com> writes:
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> On 2017-01-10 01:58, Jeff King wrote:
> ...
>> What happens in a bare repository?
>>
>> I'm guessing it's relative to the top-level of the repository,
>
> I just tried it out and it's relative to $PWD.
That is understandable.  When the user says
    $ cmd -O $file

with any option -O that takes a filename, it is most natural if we used $PWD/$file when $file is not absolute path.

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  1. 0/2 minor diff orderfile documentation improvementsRichard Hansen, Jan 10, 2017
  2. 1/2 diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFileRichard Hansen, Jan 10, 2017
  3. Jeff KingJan 10, 2017
  4. Richard HansenJan 10, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2017
  7. Richard HansenJan 10, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2017
  9. Jeff KingJan 11, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2017
  11. 2/2 diff: document the pattern format for diff.orderFileRichard Hansen, Jan 10, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2017
  13. Richard HansenJan 11, 2017
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2017
  15. Richard HansenJan 11, 2017
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2017
  17. Richard HansenJan 11, 2017
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2017
  19. 0/2 diff orderfile documentation improvementsRichard Hansen, Jan 11, 2017
  20. 1/2 diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFileRichard Hansen, Jan 11, 2017
  21. 2/2 diff: document the format of the -O (diff.orderFile) fileRichard Hansen, Jan 11, 2017
  22. 0/2 diff orderfile documentation improvementsRichard Hansen, Jan 15, 2017
  23. 1/2 diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFileRichard Hansen, Jan 15, 2017
  24. 2/2 diff: document the format of the -O (diff.orderFile) fileRichard Hansen, Jan 15, 2017

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