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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support ent:relative_path
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 21:06:30 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> (a big release in the future, perhaps 1.6.0)
> 
>  - "<something>:<path>" becomes relative to where you are.

FWIW I still find that unintuitive. I know "<something>:<path>" from ssh, 
and there it does not change meaning depending on where I am. IMHO in most 
cases you want to use git-diff anyway, which _does_ honour the current 
relative path.

Ciao,
Dscho