Thank you, it works! On Fri, 2023-06-23 at 02:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 1: the usecase is I have a Emacs helper function to pick up a an > > aribtrarily mangled path to a file in the project from the primary > > clipboard and open that file. It's often "mangled", because gdb > > prints it with `../`, then logs print no path whatsoever, just a > > filename… So it's generally useful to have. > > Sounds like you are looking for the top (and possibly glob) magic > pathspec, e.g. in the source tree of Git itself, I can go a few > levels down into a random directory and get exactly the same listing > of two files whose name is "rerere.c" located in two directories: > > $ cd t/helper > $ git ls-files --full-name ':(top,glob)**/rerere.c' > builtin/rerere.c > rerere.c > > Look for magic pathspec in "git help glossary" to learn more. > >
