Re: gitk does not show path file list

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Mark Blakeney schrieb:

quoted

This seems to me to be a straight out bug but given I've had no response here
and  given this is such a simple issue then I guess it's not a bug and I'm just
missing something? Please somebody, why does gitk (usually) not show the subset
list of files affected when you give it a path?

E.g. If I am in a src dir then "gitk ." does not list files. Neither does "gitk
$PWD" nor "gitk ../src". However "cd ..; git src" does list files!?

gitk doesn't list the files in your examples because the patterns you gave
are not initial substrings of any files in the list.

Yes, but if you are in src/ and run "gitk .", then...

 - clicking on a commit runs "diff-tree $commit .", that lists
   src/hello.c, src/goodbye.c, etc.

 - gitk tries to filter paths read from diff-tree with the "." given from
   the command line as the filter---it removes paths that do not match.

So the only case that would produce any output would be for you to have:

 src/src/hello.c
 src/frotz.c

and run

 cd src && gitk src

whose invocation of "diff-tree src" will show _only_ src/src/hello.c and
then the filter procedure will limit it to whatever begins with src/
(which would be everything).

That does not sound very useful to me...