From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:31 -0500 Message-ID: <4B0DCC27.4030702@gmail.com> References: <7vk4xggv27.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091125203922.GA18487@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7viqcytjic.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091125210034.GC18487@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vmy2as319.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091125214949.GA31473@coredump.intra.peff.net> <885649360911251412n3e566c8fu536b361b993f2ac6@mail.gmail.com> <60F92BD7-6FFF-4D9A-B2F0-0858F4E90B59@wincent.com> <7vd436p339.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4B0DC8F7.1000509@gmail.com> <7v4ooinnkx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wincent Colaiuta , James Pickens , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 26 01:30:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDSFr-0004Dh-Nk for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:30:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965028AbZKZAa2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760011AbZKZAa2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:28 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:65193 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760003AbZKZAa1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:27 -0500 Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so247340gxk.1 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Qd4trCffMeyzLpZE6JV+QvGt8TZtygX38yagV+VPmUM=; b=CUwl2ECGzhEBhUeIuBNLuKc/w4QVo7kckKb3S4f71aicHlnOgJDqlQ6eYZ4xCOTsHb stZip5WM/ZaqjvKB7iAjzT/NP8FUKxLa80+o236YH7FjGyXDwvEuTlv8s0DL759nKJPG kYb3WCPmlUSnQhKm5f36jsjYIjiaqMVVQxvW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Y1LF+2kUN92NQwK0aatIFprBakiXD4hIIkrXpFXH3e0KIptwEb9o0B2irfxrpR9vLC 8b1+4/GbMSuAZ/Ya8I54VIxkf1sPkYwXhK3LkSMVlMPS1eYNypmnQmGVoRnhtDncTQDx zH9Y/DwcblCV0JL/W/8QSXen4yht1HcidpXNY= Received: by 10.150.89.3 with SMTP id m3mr14780614ybb.186.1259195433008; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? (c-71-199-240-201.hsd1.fl.comcast.net [71.199.240.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm73118ywg.28.2009.11.25.16.30.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:32 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: <7v4ooinnkx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > A Large Angry SCM writes: > >> But the users are almost always dealing with things (objects) that >> started as files, act like files and may be files again. Why should >> they not expect filesystem semantics. > > Do you truly want to see this? > > diff --git a/var/tmp/git/Makefile b/var/tmp/git/Makefile > index 5a0b3d4..e9b03a8 100644 > --- a/var/tmp/git/Makefile > +++ b/var/tmp/git/Makefile > @@ -1985,3 +1985,4 @@ coverage-report: > ... > > As long as you are talking about paths you communicate with git, your > root _is_ the root of the work tree, and it shouldn't matter where you > have your work tree. > > That is what I meant by "the root _in the context_". > Nice example for a command output. But what did the user specify on the command line?