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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 01:09:49 +0200 (CEST)
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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