On 2009.03.31 09:31:47 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2009.03.31 09:11:00 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > And interestingly, the problem doesn't seem to be in > > show_tree/show_recursive, but in match_tree_entry. > > > > With "git ls-tree HEAD gitweb/git-favicon.png g" we descend into gitweb/ > > and at some point we get: > > > > match = "g" > > base = "gitweb/" > > > > And we have: > > if (baselen >= matchlen) { > > if (strncmp(base, match, matchlen)) > > continue; > > /* The base is a subdirectory of a path which was specified */ > > return 1; > > } > > > > So we return 1 there. The code doesn't do what the comment says, so I > > guess we can be pretty sure that the behaviour is not intended. > > Yup, it's in match_tree_entry, you get the same thing with git show. > With git.git, you can try with: > > git show 4fa535a -- Documentation/git-merge.txt D > > I'll try to get a patch done, if noone beats me to it. Ah, crap, "git show" actually uses a different function, tree_entry_interesting, which happens to have the same problem, but needs a slightly different fix. Björn -- 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