From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support ent:relative_path
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 22:21:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070504202143.GA4033@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vabwktsng.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano, Fri, May 04, 2007 19:17:39 +0200:
> Do people like that plan?
>
> (soon after 1.5.2)
>
> - start accepting "<something>:./<path>" as "relative to where I am".
>
> - start accepting "<something>:?<string>" as "look back to find
> the string".
Still don't like the feature. It makes things special: suddenly we
have to be careful about not having files with a "?" as their first
symbol (well, scripts always can prepend "./" or "/")
And it is hard to use: only prefix, must be unambiguous and is
case sensitive.
> - clearly explain the plan and prepare the users.
>
> (a big release in the future, perhaps 1.6.0)
>
> - "<something>:<path>" becomes relative to where you are.
> - stop "<something>:/<string>" and start "<something>:/<fullpath>".
I like the plan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 7:18 [PATCH] Support ent:relative_path Dana How
2007-05-04 7:22 ` Dana How
2007-05-04 8:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-04 8:45 ` Dana How
2007-05-04 8:47 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-04 8:53 ` Dana How
2007-05-04 9:17 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-04 9:26 ` Dana How
2007-05-04 9:46 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-04 16:57 ` Dana How
2007-05-04 17:17 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-04 19:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-04 20:23 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-04 9:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-04 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-04 18:23 ` Dana How
2007-05-04 19:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-04 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-04 19:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-04 19:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-04 19:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-04 20:21 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-05-04 23:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-05 0:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-05 0:52 ` Dana How
2007-05-05 1:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-05 1:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-04 8:20 ` Alex Riesen
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