On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Launching 'gitk -- .' or 'gitk -- ..\t' restricts the display to files > under the given directory but the file list is left empty. This is because > the path_filter function fails to match the filenames which are relative > to the working tree to the filter which is filessytem relative. > This solves the problem by making both names fully qualified filesystem > paths before performing the comparison. > > Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wonderful! I've run into this problem a number of times (as have some co-workers) but I never bothered to report it since I felt guilty for never having worked up a patch. I tested this and it worked. FWIW, Tested-by: David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> Thank you Pat! -- David -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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