Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt: Add a caveat about prefixing pathspec

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

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We may throw a dice or go with your version, I don't care *that* much
about this change, I just wouldn't make it personally.

What is the status of this patch? :-) Dropped altogether?

Left behind on the far side of oblivion; I do not offhand recall what this
was about, sorry.

Ok, I now recall this bit:

        You are right, now that I understand the issue better, there's no good
        fix for this except perhaps introducing --no-prefix, which is not my
        itch to scratch. Here's my original wording improvement:

                Note that if you are within a subdirectory of your working copy,
                'git ls-tree' will automatically prepend the subdirectory prefix
                to the specified paths, and assume the prefix specified in case
                no paths were given - no matter what the tree object is! Thus,
                within a subdirectory, 'git ls-tree' behaves as expected only
                when run on a root tree object.

Eventually somebody may write a Porcelain that benefits from --no-prefix,
but it is safe to defer the implementation until the need becomes real.

I'll add some explanatory message to the documentation.