Re: Getting path to a file from arbitrary project directory

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

Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:

> 1: the usecase is I have a Emacs helper function to pick up a an
> aribtrarily mangled path to a file in the project from the primary
> clipboard and open that file. It's often "mangled", because gdb
> prints it with `../`, then logs print no path whatsoever, just a
> filename… So it's generally useful to have.

Sounds like you are looking for the top (and possibly glob) magic
pathspec, e.g. in the source tree of Git itself, I can go a few
levels down into a random directory and get exactly the same listing
of two files whose name is "rerere.c" located in two directories:

    $ cd t/helper
    $ git ls-files --full-name ':(top,glob)**/rerere.c'
    builtin/rerere.c
    rerere.c

Look for magic pathspec in "git help glossary" to learn more.