Re: [PATCH] files given on the command line are relative to $cwd

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"Junio" == Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Junio> When running "git commit -F file" and "git tag -F file" from a
Junio> subdirectory, we should take it as relative to the directory we
Junio> started from, not relative to the top-level directory.

Don't we have the same problem with "git show"? If you go into
the "gitweb" directory of the GIT source, "git show HEAD:README" will
show you the toplevel "README" instead of the one in the "gitweb"
directory.

  Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

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"Junio" == Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Junio> When running "git commit -F file" and "git tag -F file" from a
Junio> subdirectory, we should take it as relative to the directory we
Junio> started from, not relative to the top-level directory.

Don't we have the same problem with "git show"? If you go into
the "gitweb" directory of the GIT source, "git show HEAD:README" will
show you the toplevel "README" instead of the one in the "gitweb"
directory.

No, git show has different semantics. It has been discussed often in
this list.

For instance:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68786/focus=68852

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Luciano Rocha [off-list ref]
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