On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:53:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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. > > Now, I did: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/13028/focus=13135 > > I think the answer is --full-name (cf. a69dd58 (ls-tree: chomp leading > directories when run from a subdirectory, 2005-12-23)). I don't understand your point now. --full-name cares only about the displaying part; do you suggest that it should be extended to also turn off prepending the prefix during the filtering phase? That would make a lot of sense, if you are not worried about compatibility trouble. -- Petr "Pasky, missing something" 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
