Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > IOW, it's not intended for users to use absolute paths in this way. > However, the results for git-blame are obviously quite confusing. It > might be worth fixing, but I suspect there are many more such traps > waiting in other commands. I wonder if it would make sense to reject > pathspecs starting with '/' entirely, which would at least give us a > saner error message (and I can't think of a time when such a pathspec > would be useful)? All correct, except... > Even more useful would be to convert > /path/to/repo/file to 'file' internally. ... that might help "cut & paste from file manager" people, and I think we had comment session for such a patch recently on the list. Sorry, but I lost track of that the current status of that patch. Did it die? - 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
