Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > Then you make an untracked directory called untracked/. Tradition > dictates that when we're in that directory, we get the prefix > "untracked/", because we might add a file, or reference a file in another > branch, where that directory is _not_ untracked. The test is modelled after the install script; Documentation/ (the CWD during 'make quick-install-doc') is not tracked in branch origin/man. > So it is expected that checkout-index and ls-files behave differently > in a subdirectory (even if that is currently untracked). > > It seems a bit counterintuitive that read-tree succeeds, but really, > read-tree is only a commit -> index operation, which should not care about > the current prefix. So it is fine. > > Checkout-index, instead, is an index -> working tree operation, and for > most of these, we care about the current prefix (so that you can say git > checkout-index file1, where file1 is in the current directory, which is > _not_ the working tree root). OK, makes sense. Thanks, René - 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
