From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:20:46 -0800 Message-ID: <7v4ooinnkx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Wincent Colaiuta , James Pickens , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: gitzilla@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 26 01:21:09 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 1NDS6d-00012F-L7 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:21:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965025AbZKZAU4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759997AbZKZAU4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:56 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:40774 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759790AbZKZAUz (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:55 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB08A17F5; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:21:01 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=+npexNbTzTRKaVSL0z97cFlwBzo=; b=BalPRL Okygwf71O7h6CAFvjivE0h1fl8MNte14p3h0uIFt+l+gvUGQtdzQNFD/qowd3wcK VJGmUVJzsYyIYZaXGnMzMTnqqabopR1Y5sRYQckXHZ4aSWb5vrxGUi3wo67MwAHU FSSHK9twQZ9J8bRuM5lVDcCreuQCl27ihaB0Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=BaR3wNCox3PyeO9t9KeRkmWHHbNwPnnt K/FoDe0Td+B7sEbVt1BsgF2Elrp74D9u727dMUi5v+XUtRU3aqofRTbVqCRGk55H z2fHqSQbv+P5FyfdcvaZ0/WiivnfVurlBV5idLV+lgZa6tmRMn/ait7WPfkR0fLq WVXqXtqZzb4= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2F8A17F1; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00C6EA17EF; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4B0DC8F7.1000509@gmail.com> (A. Large Angry's message of "Wed\, 25 Nov 2009 19\:16\:55 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 907FF4A6-DA21-11DE-88E8-EF34BBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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_".