On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:24:00PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > I think that ls-tree simply shouldn't auto-fill its pathspec based on > > current prefix in case no pathspec was supplied. Patch to follow. > > Have you dug the list archive from mid-to-late December 2005 that prompted > the current behaviour (and introduction of --full-name)? I haven't. A > change to always do the --full-name can only be justified by doing so and > rehashing the issues. > > On the other hand, "fix" is welcome. You are right, now that I understand the issue better, there's no good fix for this except perhaps introducing --no-prefix, which is not my itch to scratch. Here's my original wording improvement: Note that if you are within a subdirectory of your working copy, 'git ls-tree' will automatically prepend the subdirectory prefix to the specified paths, and assume the prefix specified in case no paths were given - no matter what the tree object is! Thus, within a subdirectory, 'git ls-tree' behaves as expected only when run on a root tree object. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name. -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie -- 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
