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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect git-blame result if I use full path to file
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:09:05 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712031807410.27959@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712030922250.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It [the patch] makes "get_pathspec()" make all the paths it returns 
> relative, if it can. HOWEVER! I think it should actually die() if it 
> sees an absolute path that it cannot convert (because it really cannot 
> do anything sane about it), but I commented that out for now because 
> that requires some test case change: right now we actually have a few 
> test cases for insane filename arguments, and they expect the old 
> behaviour.

I have the slight suspicion that this could break diff --no-index.  And it 
does not contain any symlink resolution, right?

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-03  0:52 Incorrect git-blame result if I use full path to file Anatol Pomozov
2007-12-03  2:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03  2:28   ` Jeff King
2007-12-03 17:26   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-03 18:09     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-12-03 18:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-03 18:19         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-03  2:27 ` Jeff King
2007-12-03  2:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03  2:49     ` Jeff King
2007-12-03  6:55       ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-03 20:53         ` [PATCH] Make Git accept absolute path names for files within the work tree Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-03 23:03           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04  1:43           ` Jeff King
2007-12-04  2:17             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-04  6:42               ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-04 11:50                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-04 15:59                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-04 22:08                     ` Jeff King
2007-12-04 22:52                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-06  6:12                         ` Jeff King

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