Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Dana How wrote:

> Most commands accept relative paths,  but this is
> not true of arguments in ent:path format.  This
> patch makes all of the following git-show commands
> work in the git source tree (not just the first):
>  % cd xdiff
>  % git-show v1.5.2-rc0:xdiff/xemit.h
>  % git-show v1.5.2-rc0:./xemit.h
>  % git-show v1.5.2-rc0:../sha1_name.c

ACK.

> It also adds ent:?string as a synonym for ent:/string .
> This makes the following changes possible later:
> ent:/path is an absolute path and ent:path is relative.

NACK. The "?" thing is highly unintuitive, and I still do not think that 
it is worth the confusion to make Git behave funny on 
<tree>:<file-name>.

Think of the "todo" branch, for example. And this is not even far fetched. 
In many repositories I have to have separate related, but non-branch 
HEADs. For example, I track some projects with custom scripts. These 
scripts do _not_ belong into that branch. However, they are related, so I 
store them in the same repository.

Plus, my example of the bare-repository still has not been answered by 
_anyone_ in favour of changing the current behaviour.

Ciao,
Dscho