On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:52:53PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote: > This, OTOH, is a bit intrusive and changes the current behaviour a bit > too far. git-show cannot use the absolute pathnames in blob locators > at all now, which I consider bad. An obvious way to use rev:/path is > blocked by Johannes' get_sha1_oneline. It would have worked, though. IMO, this is backwards. The default should be absolute naming (after all, you have already rooted it at a tree by saying HEAD:), and you should treat '.' as a short-hand for "my current prefix". IOW, this works as before: cd t && git show HEAD:t/test-lib.sh but this would now work: cd t && git show HEAD:./test-lib.sh and of course supporting '..' could be added, as well. This works under the assumption that you don't have tree entries of '.' or '..'; I don't think the data structure enforces any such assumption, but I doubt you could easily create such a tree without hacking the git tools (and you would have to be insane to do so anyway). -Peff PS I didn't just think of this...I'm pretty sure this discussion came up sometime in the past year and somebody more clever than I thought of it. - 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
