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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 01:09:49 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705070108380.4167@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070506185259.GF30511@admingilde.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 6 May 2007, Martin Waitz wrote:

> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:17:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > > > we could also introduce "<tree-ish>/<path>" for absolute path entries.
> > > > 
> > > > When you name the tree-ish with usual "branch name", where does
> > > > the branch name end and pathname start?  What happens when there
> > > > is an ambiguity, and how costly to detect such an ambiguity to
> > > > begin with?
> > > 
> > > well, if you know that it starts with a tree-ish there is no
> > > ambiguity [...]
> > 
> > Wrong. For example, mw/submodules~10 _is_ a tree-ish (if you have a branch 
> > named "mw/submodules").
> 
> so what?

So what: it proves that your case is wrong. mw/submodules~10/README would 
be _severely_ confused.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-06 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-05  0:47 [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path Dana How
2007-05-05  1:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-05  1:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-05  3:30   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-05 19:32     ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-05 20:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-05 21:18         ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-06  0:59           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 18:52             ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-06 23:09               ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-05-05 20:37       ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-05  3:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-05  6:46     ` Dana How
2007-05-05  8:03       ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-05 14:39       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06  6:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-06 15:14           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-06 17:35             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-06 23:12               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-07  0:18                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-07  0:37                   ` Dana How

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