Re: [PATCH] get_sha1: support relative path ":path" syntax

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In the absence of programming errors, should all git command support
> <tree>:./<path> syntax to name an object, or are there cases where the
> relative does not make any sense?
>
> What I am trying to get at is that if this is diagnosing a user error, or
> if this is showing that the mechanism to implement the relative path is
> unnecessarily hard for the programmers to misuse.

The mistake should be obvious from the context, but I wanted to say with
the last sentence "the mechanism is too hard for the programmers to use
and easy to make mistakes."
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