Re: git rm --pathspec-from-file does not work in subdirectories

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:07 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if the attached patch would make both issues better.
>
> The "attached patch" is missing.

Heh.  Something along this line, but I think pathspec-from-file
still needs a bit more work even with this patch.

 builtin/rm.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git c/builtin/rm.c w/builtin/rm.c
index 8a24c715e0..a4a8a1ad8d 100644
--- c/builtin/rm.c
+++ w/builtin/rm.c
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			     builtin_rm_usage, 0);
 
 	parse_pathspec(&pathspec, 0,
-		       PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD,
+		       PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL,
 		       prefix, argv);
 
 	if (pathspec_from_file) {
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			die(_("--pathspec-from-file is incompatible with pathspec arguments"));
 
 		parse_pathspec_file(&pathspec, 0,
-				    PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD,
+				    PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL,
 				    prefix, pathspec_from_file, pathspec_file_nul);
 	} else if (pathspec_file_nul) {
 		die(_("--pathspec-file-nul requires --pathspec-from-file"));