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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simple support for tree entry specification with
	relative pathnames
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:17:13 +0100
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Dana How, Tue, Dec 18, 2007 22:03:04 +0100:
> ACK from me...

But NAK from me. Definitely not in this form. Please consider the
patches *only* as an RFC.

> I submitted a similar patch last May 4 which also changed
> sha1_name.c to do this.  The patch added a config variable to
> control this (probably not desirable).  The patch also handled
> leading/embedded . and .. .

This one (the last in series) too.

> In p4 you can say
>   p4 <operation> file#rev
> and file is interpreted relatively.
> 
> I wanted to be able to say
>   git <operation> tree:file
> and have file interpreted relatively.
> This should only happen when you are inside the work tree.

It is pure coincedence the syntaxes look similar. They are very deeply
different in Git and Perforce.