Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] Doc URLs: relative paths imply the dot-respository

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/urls.txt | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
> index 9ccb246..5350a63 100644
> --- a/Documentation/urls.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
> @@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies
>  --local option.
>  endif::git-clone[]
>  
> +Relative paths are relative to the `$GIT_DIR`, thus the path:

Is it?

	git init src dst
        cd src
        git commit --allow-empty -m initial
        cd ../dst
        git fetch ../src HEAD:refs/heads/copy

would work, but if it is relative to $GIT_DIR, the last one would
need to be written as

	git fetch ../../src HEAD:refs/heads/copy

wouldn't it?

> +
> +- '.'
> +
> +is the current repository and acts as if it were a repository
> +named `'.'`.
> +
>  When Git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it
>  attempts to use the 'remote-<transport>' remote helper, if one
>  exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax
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