Re: [PATCH] Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree.

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:53:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> 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.

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			Petr "Pasky, missing something" Baudis
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