From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alex Riesen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support ent:relative_path Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 10:47:24 +0200 Message-ID: <81b0412b0705040147h1bab8f6ao3ce2c486637a0d4f@mail.gmail.com> References: <463ADE51.2030108@gmail.com> <56b7f5510705040022x2e4903d3hbe4ac1ee1a2e096f@mail.gmail.com> <7v7irpuhhr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Dana How" , "Git Mailing List" To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 04 10:47:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjtS0-0005hP-7Y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:47:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932929AbXEDIrh (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 04:47:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933036AbXEDIrg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 04:47:36 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.243]:63747 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932929AbXEDIrg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 04:47:36 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so764831ana for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 01:47:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XJSojbeSDR6znjwBkJVMf7BlA4ztDrydfjtV/EBVyTDJvnlUYLYSGWuc2jyhzJUSSK7guFbNh4DGCPDZBMhyuNQIRe9FU9r2R7HLdVlRX++ZvWv2dlK5pC73hWXaCb1uA0wUL8BEys480Nhr+c4iY80rzY0BP21OLOWqrJo0oPo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ufAInxWgDoPDvyrSk505TrvLLn5ijvbSDB2Jos0KATVC53gxt6lw/XIryXVA5dSPy2cviFyI3u0cpnLWds/VfRO2mDZpuy0X+jBE8/tJ9aPcqcHO0rqOBFkFNSDfaVLRvxvLSdvgPeX0VZFlitPkKTHA1CSxuAwxZFqaOZ4sWrc= Received: by 10.100.213.3 with SMTP id l3mr2435485ang.1178268444635; Fri, 04 May 2007 01:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.86.19 with HTTP; Fri, 4 May 2007 01:47:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7v7irpuhhr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 5/4/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > (1) we say it was a mistake that we did not make it relative to > the current directory when we introduced the X: > syntax (X could be empty or :[0-3]: for index, or a commit > or tree object name), and change the semantics in a future > major release for everybody, apologizing for potentially > breaking existing scripts; or That would be my first prio preference > (2) keep the current behaviour as is, and come up with a > different syntax to use relative; or > > (3) do nothing. > > My preference is (2), (3) and then (1), but I do not have > offhand a suggestion for a good metacharacter we could use. "./" :)