Hi, On Sun, 6 May 2007, Martin Waitz wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:17:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > we could also introduce "<tree-ish>/<path>" for absolute path entries. > > > > > > > > When you name the tree-ish with usual "branch name", where does > > > > the branch name end and pathname start? What happens when there > > > > is an ambiguity, and how costly to detect such an ambiguity to > > > > begin with? > > > > > > well, if you know that it starts with a tree-ish there is no > > > ambiguity [...] > > > > Wrong. For example, mw/submodules~10 _is_ a tree-ish (if you have a branch > > named "mw/submodules"). > > so what? So what: it proves that your case is wrong. mw/submodules~10/README would be _severely_ confused. 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