Re: [RFC/PATCH] Fix path prefixing in grep_object
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Aug 25, 2013, 05:25 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> I think Phil meant that when "git grep" is asked to search within > "HEAD:some/path", filenames tacked on at the end should be appended > with a '/' separator instead of the usual ':' (e.g., > "HEAD:some/path/inner/path.c", not "HEAD:some/path:inner/path.c").
Ah, OK.
I am not sure if we have a proper hint in the revision parser machinery, but it may not be too hard to teach rev-cmdline interface to keep that kind of information (i.e. "This tree object name is a result of parsing '<tree-ish>:path' syntax").