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From: "Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support ent:relative_path
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 17:52:38 -0700
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On 5/4/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm not sure about "<tree-ish>:<path>" with <path> being relative by
> > default. For me it is <path> in <tree-ish> (like in
> > "git-ls-tree -r <tree-ish>" result).
>
> That's right (and Dscho is also).
>
> "v1.5.1:git.c" IS "git.c that appears at the toplevel of
> v1.5.1's tree."
>
> Ok, for now let's forget about this relative stuff.

Hmm, most of the work I do in the parts of our
perforce repository I want to convert to git is
far enough down that the paths have 6 in-repo path components.
I don't want to type all those when I want to fetch an
older version with git-show.  Everything I do is relative.
In fact,  I think perforce supports typing absolute paths,
(using an 8-character prefix!) but I have never used it,
nor would I if it were shorter.
-- 
Dana L. How  danahow@gmail.com  +1 650 804 5991 cell