Hi, On Fri, 4 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > FWIW I still find that unintuitive. I know "<something>:<path>" from ssh, > > and there it does not change meaning depending on where I am. IMHO in most > > cases you want to use git-diff anyway, which _does_ honour the current > > relative path. > > There, its meaning is relative to where you are, namely "$HOME". No, it is relative to where I am _at the other end_. If I "cd /tmp", it still is relative to $HOME. Now, what you want to do is changing the meaning of v1.5.1:Makefile, depending if you "cd Documentation/"ed or not. For me, "v1.5.1:" means something similar to ssh: it is a distant revision. It is not a complete filesystem. I think of revisions as something more general than a directory, but less general than a filesystem. And thus, it makes perfect sense to me that "v1.5.1:Makefile" means the main Makefile, no matter where I am in the current repository. Now, I agree that often you want to compare some file in the current directory to the corresponding file in a certain revision. That is why git-diff has a different idea, and indeed, a different notation, too. Ciao, Dscho - 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