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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-checkout: Test for relative path use.
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"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.