On Dec 2, 2007 7:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Gustaf Hendeby" <hendeby@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > A while ago 'git status' was patched to report relative pathnames. (I > > like that change it makes cut'n'paste easier.) However, 'git diff > > --name-only' and 'git diff --name-status' (other commands as well), > > which gives in a sense similar output has not been changed the same > > way. Is this intentionally, or just because no one has stepped up and > > provided a patch? If the difference is to stay, maybe this should be > > reflected in the help texts to avoid any confusion. > > The commands output from diff always talks about paths relative to the > tree root, and scripts rely on it. The recent change made exceptions to > the status command. I agree an additional documentation to git-status > would be beneficial. > > Having said that, a switch --relative-name might be an option. It could > be argued that doing it the other way around (like --full-name option to > ls-files does), defaulting to relative to cwd, would have been a getter > approach if we were doing git from scratch, though. We may still want > to do so in the longer run, but that would be a huge interface change > that would impact a lot of peoples' scripts. > > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt > index 8fd0fc6..b0cb6bc 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt > @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ OUTPUT > The output from this command is designed to be used as a commit > template comments, and all the output lines are prefixed with '#'. > > +The paths mentioned in the output, unlike many other git commands, are > +made relative to the current directory, if you are working in a > +subdirectory (this is on purpose, to help cutting and pasting). > + > > CONFIGURATION > ------------- > Thank you for your timely answer and the good explanation. Sorry for my late response! I think that the addition to the documentation that you suggest sounds good, and would be useful. Do you want me to do anything else about this? /Gustaf - 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
