On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > This patch allows non-existing paths to be given without the > double-dash marker as long as they exist in the index, or they > are leading paths of blobs that exist in the index. The only objection I have to this (and it's not a very strong one) is that it can cause the index to be populated for processes that really don't care. We could work around that with a flag in "struct rev_info", so that programs that call "setup_revisions()" can specify before-hand if they are interested in the index or not. The reason I somewhat care was that I was actually going to make the checks a bit _stronger_: I was going to say that if you have a pathspec, but don't have a "--" marker, then we'd additionally check: - none of the arguments we parsed as revisions could be interpreted as a filename. - none of the paths are "--" so that there really isn't any possibility of accidental confusion in case somebody does have a revision that looks like a pathname too. But I don't actually care _that_ deeply. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html