From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 05:25:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Fix path prefixing in grep_object
Message-ID: <xmqqk3jal4t7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130825042314.GE2882@elie.Belkin>

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").