Re: [BUG?] Path limiting in "git log" when run from another subdir

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Johan Herland [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The following works in the git.git repo:

$ cd t
$ git log -- /Documentation
[...]

What version? Mine (recent master) does not work

~/w/git/t $ ../git log -- /Documentation
fatal: '/Documentation' is outside repository

We initially found it on 1.7.9.5, and conrfirmed it on various 1.7.10
versions. A bisect reveals that this behavior changed in
v1.7.11.5-35-gf4c21e8 (Michael Haggerty: real_path(): properly handle
nonexistent top-level paths).

Does this mean that "git log -- /Documentation" never should have
worked in the first place (and was "fixed" by this commit), or that it
should work (but was broken by this commit)?

In any case, what is the _preferred_ way to path-limit "git log" to
Documentation/RelNotes, when my cwd is t/?


Thanks for your help,

...Johan

quoted

but the following does not:

$ cd t
$ git log -- /Documentation/RelNotes
fatal: Could not switch to '/Documentation': No such file or directory


Is this the intended behavior?

--
Duy

-- 
Johan Herland, [off-list ref]
www.herland.net