Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit: allow partial commits with relative paths

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:
[snip]

I can't reproduce that name truncation with a current git, btw. (So I
won't bother bisecting where we removed a spurious offset by "prefix".)

I can:

:: git --version
git version 1.7.6.347.g4db0d
:: git init reproduce-bug
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jszakmeister/tmp/reproduce-bug/.git/
:: cd reproduce-bug
:: echo foo > foo.txt
:: mkdir bar
:: echo bar bar/bar.txt
bar bar/bar.txt
:: git add .
:: git commit -m '.'
[master (root-commit) a5f76f1] .
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 bar/bar.txt
 create mode 100644 foo.txt
:: cd bar
:: git rm ../foo.txt
rm 'foo.txt'
:: git commit ../foo.txt
error: pathspec 'txt' did not match any file(s) known to git.

-John