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Subject: Re: log/show: relative pathnames do not work in rev:path
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> And I still maintain that expecting <tree-ish>:<path> to take the current 
> relative path into account would be just like if you expected
>
> 	C:\> cd WINDOWS
> 	C:\WINDOWS> dir D:system32
>
> to show you the contents of D:\WINDOWS\system32.
>
> Or another, less Windowsy example:
>
> 	$ cd /usr/bin
> 	$ scp home:bash ./
>
> No, this does not copy home:/usr/bin/bash but home:$HOME/bash.

Please do not cc me on this topic, unless it is a patch implementing
suggestion from Linus to treat $commit^{tree} as relative to $(cwd) but
for only when the user directly specified that in full, including ^{tree}
part.