On 31/05/17 01:13, Ramsay Jones wrote:

On 31/05/17 00:29, Stefan Beller wrote:
 

quoted

In that test sm_path contains the relative path from $PWD to the
submodule. (It does NOT: "$[sm_]path is the name of the submodule
directory relative to the superproject" as documented but rather
... relative to the $PWD)

In that case, the current user documentation does not agree with
the current implementation, yes?

So, was the user documentation always wrong? (did git-ls-files work
from a sub-directory, limiting its output to the cwd, or did it
chdir() to the top of the worktree first?).

To answer my own question, I rebuilt git and tried directly:

  $ pwd
  /home/ramsay/git
  $ 
  $ ./git version
  git version 1.7.10.1.g64394
  $ 
  $ cd git_remote_helpers/
  $ ../git-ls-files --error-unmatch --stage --
  100644 2247d5f95a7193c7221b9464debe167763b4fae3 0	.gitignore
  100644 74b05dc91e42414147d5f3dc7b4fc66fb86c0eca 0	Makefile
  100644 00f69cbeda277b24e8ab35cb7db2c25cc0cc122e 0	__init__.py
  100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0	git/__init__.py
  100644 9ee5f96d4ce313f4f94505ff65b560943bfd21cb 0	git/exporter.py
  100644 007a1bfdf37d231470f69d9d0cffa46e80127f34 0	git/git.py
  100644 5c6b595e16665bc508625ab0e96c95776bacba1a 0	git/importer.py
  100644 e70025095dcfb31d3944e72ac1f83dd7d4109103 0	git/non_local.py
  100644 acbf8d7785e2253777456f8910e2352992dda474 0	git/repo.py
  100644 4bff8878d14ccaf02c552073ef55d519df0b4cad 0	setup.cfg
  100644 4d434b65cbf5c42a455d5cd3bced030bfb51a245 0	setup.py
  100644 fbbb01b14619c1d2ed6bcc8f304f019fbe98697f 0	util.py
  $ 
  
Hmm, so it looks like $path was always relative to cwd!

(got to get some sleep now ...)

ATB,
Ramsay Jones