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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> I think that ls-tree simply shouldn't auto-fill its pathspec based on
> current prefix in case no pathspec was supplied. Patch to follow.

Have you dug the list archive from mid-to-late December 2005 that prompted
the current behaviour (and introduction of --full-name)?  I haven't.  A
change to always do the --full-name can only be justified by doing so and
rehashing the issues.

On the other hand, "fix" is welcome.