On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As such, the default positive match should be ':/' (which is shorter and
> less cumbersome than ':(top)', btw)
So that's what my patch does.
However, it's actually very counter-intuitive in a subdirectory.
Git doesn't do much of that, but let me give you an example from the
kernel. Again, this is not an example of anything I would do (because
I'm always at the top), but:
[torvalds@i7 linux]$ cd drivers/
[torvalds@i7 drivers]$ ll
.. whee, *lots* of diorectories ..
.. lets see what happened in net/ ..
[torvalds@i7 drivers]$ git diff -M --dirstat=1,cumulative
v4.10-rc6..v4.10-rc7 -- net/
7.4% drivers/net/ethernet/adaptec/
47.9% drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/
7.1% drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/
1.1% drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/
3.6% drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/
23.5% drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/
27.2% drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/
92.5% drivers/net/ethernet/
5.3% drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/
5.9% drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/
100.0% drivers/net/
.. let's see what happened *outside* of net/ ..
[torvalds@i7 drivers]$ git diff -M --dirstat=1,cumulative
v4.10-rc6..v4.10-rc7 -- :^net/
2.4% arch/arm64/crypto/
2.1% arch/powerpc/include/asm/
1.5% arch/powerpc/kernel/
3.9% arch/powerpc/
3.5% arch/sparc/kernel/
4.1% arch/sparc/
8.3% arch/x86/events/intel/
1.7% arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/
1.6% arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/
3.3% arch/x86/kernel/cpu/
3.8% arch/x86/kernel/
1.0% arch/x86/platform/efi/
13.3% arch/x86/
24.0% arch/
1.1% drivers/base/
2.9% drivers/dma/
12.3% drivers/gpu/drm/i915/
1.0% drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/
16.2% drivers/gpu/drm/
3.9% drivers/hid/
1.6% drivers/iio/
2.3% drivers/regulator/
...
Notice? When you say "show only the net subdirectory" it does the
obvious thing relative to the current working directory, but if you
say "show everything _but_ the net subdirectory" it suddenly starts
showing other things.
Now, it would be easy enough to say "if you don't give a positive
path, we'll just use the empty path that matches the negative paths".
So if you ask for a negative relative "net" directory, we'll use the
relative empty path. And if you ask for a negative absolute path,
we'll use the empty absolute path.
It's a couple of lines more, and I think it might avoid some confusion.
And I suspect almost nobody has ever done any of this before,. because
the syntax was/is so cumbersome.
Linus