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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How is git diff --relative supposed to work?
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:22:19 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfr8jjb1g.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1cd3ca7-9b31-45b0-b990-05f4d1f6b4f2@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2026 09:15:03 +0100")

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Try this in your favorite repository:
>
> $ echo foo >> Makefile
> $ git -P diff --name-only --relative=Ma
> kefile
>
> This doesn't look right. Shouldn't the path specified with --relative be
> interpreted as a directory instead of an arbitrary textual prefix?

Sounds like an utter nonsense to me, too.  If we assume Ma were a
directory, would the result be "../Makefile" relative to the Ma
directory?


      reply	other threads:[~2026-01-06 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-06  8:15 How is git diff --relative supposed to work? Johannes Sixt
2026-01-06 10:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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