# [PATCH 2/2] Make git-update-cache take relative pathnames

1 messages from 2005-08-17 to 2005-08-17. Participants: Linus Torvalds.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1562

## Linus Torvalds, 2005-08-17 20:32

Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Make git-update-cache take relative pathnames
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508171331540.3553@g5.osdl.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.58.0508171331540.3553%40g5.osdl.org

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This also makes "./filename" acceptable as a side effect, since the
pathname normalization handles that too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

 update-cache.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

ece92eeda777c3141f5692132ccc2ba7e4e801a2
diff --git a/update-cache.c b/update-cache.c
--- a/update-cache.c
+++ b/update-cache.c
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	int i, newfd, entries, has_errors = 0;
 	int allow_options = 1;
+	const char *prefix = setup_git_directory();
 
 	newfd = hold_index_file_for_update(&cache_file, get_index_file());
 	if (newfd < 0)
@@ -381,6 +382,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			}
 			die("unknown option %s", path);
 		}
+		path = prefix_path(prefix, prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0, path);
 		if (!verify_path(path)) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "Ignoring path %s\n", argv[i]);
 			continue;

```