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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Subject: Re: something fishy with Git commit and log from file
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:28:09 +0200
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Junio C Hamano a =E9crit :
> Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:
>=20
>> So definitely a Git bug! Can be reproduced with:
>>
>>    $ mkdir repo && cd repo
>>    $ git init
>>    $ mkdir dir
>>    $ cd dir
>>    $ echo file > file
>>    $ echo log > log
>>    $ git add file
>>    $ git commit --file=3Dlog
>>    fatal: could not read log file 'log': No such file or directory
>=20
> Try it without cding down to "dir".

Yes it works. It also works if I do:

     $ echo log > ../log

instead of

     $ echo log > log

Git is looking for the log file at the Git root.

Pascal.

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