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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Andreas Ericsson" <ae@op5.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use.
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:54:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd4ukxjxn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20711081744p5d7b46fo88a582b9f5dbdab8@mail.gmail.com> (David Symonds's message of "Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:44:53 +1100")

"David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 9, 2007 12:28 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Seriously, that's a long standing limitation in the code, not to
>> deal with arbitrary combination of ups and downs, but I do not
>> think there is any fundamental reason to disallow something
>> like:
>>
>>         cd Documentation && git ls-files --full-name ../t
>>
>> Patches welcome.
>
> So you're otherwise happy with my tests, despite one of them
> triggering an (unrelated to git-checkout) bug? Or would you prefer I
> remove that particular failure from the tests and resend?

Are you really asking my preference?  A patch to ls-files to
make the test pass is my preference, of course ;-).

Haven't read your tests, though, but I see capable people
already commented on the initial round so I do not expect it to
be problematic.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-09  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09  0:36 [PATCH] git-checkout: Support relative paths containing ".." David Symonds
2007-11-09  0:36 ` [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use David Symonds
2007-11-09  1:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09  1:44     ` David Symonds
2007-11-09  1:54       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-11-09  1:57         ` David Symonds
2007-11-09 19:48     ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-09  7:13   ` Johannes Sixt
2007-11-09  7:24     ` David Symonds
2007-11-09  7:37       ` David Symonds
2007-11-09  8:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09  8:14         ` David Symonds
2007-11-09  9:06           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09  9:10             ` David Symonds
2007-11-09  9:12               ` David Symonds

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