From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use.
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:48:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711092048.34868.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtznwxl59.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
fredag 09 november 2007 skrev Junio C Hamano:
> David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > Test 5 in this series fails because of a bug in git-ls-files, where
> > git-ls-files t/../
> > (with or without --full-name) returns no files.
>
> Heh, you shouldn't do that ;-)
>
> Seriously, that's a long standing limitation in the code, not to
> deal with arbitrary combination of ups and downs, but I do not
> think there is any fundamental reason to disallow something
> like:
>
> cd Documentation && git ls-files --full-name ../t
>
> Patches welcome.
I'm for allowing it, but then it should really be all over, not just some arbitrary
command. Everywhere or not at all.
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 0:36 [PATCH] git-checkout: Support relative paths containing ".." David Symonds
2007-11-09 0:36 ` [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use David Symonds
2007-11-09 1:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 1:44 ` David Symonds
2007-11-09 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 1:57 ` David Symonds
2007-11-09 19:48 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
2007-11-09 7:13 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-11-09 7:24 ` David Symonds
2007-11-09 7:37 ` David Symonds
2007-11-09 8:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 8:14 ` David Symonds
2007-11-09 9:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 9:10 ` David Symonds
2007-11-09 9:12 ` David Symonds
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