Re: Gitk: shortcut to jump to the current HEAD (yellow spot)?

Am 24.12.2011 05:22 schrieb Martin von Zweigbergk:

2011/12/23 Dirk Süsserott [off-list ref]:

quoted

That's because gitk behaves odd (at least to me) when not run from the
top-level directory. E.g. the "touching paths" box won't find files in
the top dir if you don't prefix them with a slash.

This should be fixed in c332f44 (gitk: Fix file highlight when run in
subdirectory, 2011-04-04), which is in the current master and thus, I
believe, to be released in Git 1.7.9.

Martin

Ahh, cool. I wouldn't have noticed because I'm so used to my "cd $TOP &&
gitk". I thought it was by intention because it just behaves like "git
log": When run from subdirs it doesn't know about topdir files: Assume
README.txt is in the topdir and current dir is some subdir:

$ git log -- README.txt    # fails
$ git log -- ../README.txt # works

My alias (or function) was just a helper to avoid remembering where I
started gitk from.

Cheers,
    Dirk

BTW, Merry X-Mas to you and all others on the list :-)