Phil Hord <phil.hord@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Phil Hord <hordp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> When the pathspec given to grep includes a tree name, the full
>> name of matched files is assembled using colon as a separator.
>> If the pathspec includes a tree name, it should use a slash
>> instead.
>>
>> Check if the pathspec already names a tree and ref (including
>> a colon) and use a slash if so.
>
> I think I used lots of wrong terminology there. What do I call these
> things?
>
> HEAD:path is a tree.
It is one way to name a tree object, yes (another obvious way is to
spell it out, e.g. 3610ac62).
> HEAD is a commit name.
It is one way to name the commit object, yes, but I am guessing that
you are interested in these in the context of resolving HEAD:path.
If that is the case, then "commit"-ness is not something you are
interested in---any tree-ish would do (e.g. v1.8.4, maint^{tree}).
> Maybe like this?
>
> When a tree is given to grep, the full name of matched files
> is assembled using colon as a separator.
>
> If the tree name includes an object name, as in
> HEAD:some/path, it should use a slash instead.
What problem are you trying to solve? It should use HEAD:some/path,
not HEAD/some/path.
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