From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Steve Frécinaux" <code@istique.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:22:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721002248.GJ10151@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vljzw14br.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:14:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I never thought you would think "showing relative to tree-root" is even an
> option.
I assume you mean "not filtering relative to tree-root"?
> That would make it inconsistent with not just the established
> semantics of what the plumbing did, but also with what ls-files does.
But ls-files always works on the index; ls-tree can work on trees,
and when you're inspecting a non-root tree object from within
a subdirectory, this behaviour can be rather unexpected. But as I said,
I'm fine with just documenting it.
--
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 22:25 [PATCH] Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree Steve Frécinaux
2008-07-20 23:08 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 23:22 ` Steve Frécinaux
2008-07-20 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 23:39 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-21 7:56 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt: Add a caveat about prefixing pathspec Petr Baudis
2008-07-21 8:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 21:04 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-22 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 22:47 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-28 0:46 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-28 1:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28 9:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 8:45 ` Steve Frécinaux
2008-07-20 23:53 ` [PATCH] Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 0:08 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-21 0:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 0:22 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2008-07-21 4:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 7:47 ` Petr Baudis
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