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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").

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  1. Fix path prefixing in grep_objectPhil Hord, Aug 25, 2013
  2. Phil HordAug 25, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  4. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2013
  7. Phil HordAug 26, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2013
  9. Phil HordAug 26, 2013
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  11. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2013
  12. Phil HordAug 26, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2013
  14. Phil HordAug 27, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2013
  16. Phil HordAug 26, 2013
  17. Jeff KingAug 25, 2013
  18. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2013
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