From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Symonds" Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with git log Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:00:42 +1100 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910711071415i1729e277u6be19b72cd682a85@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711071445p7cfb6cffx83adb1d84d6bf9d8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , "Git Mailing List" To: "Jon Smirl" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 08 00:01:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iptto-0000XE-Uz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:01:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758405AbXKGXAo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:00:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758491AbXKGXAo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:00:44 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.188]:44047 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758250AbXKGXAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:00:43 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so2190674rvb for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:00:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=JaNqxPSWMtlCZTbMJhuxQGwKcQHondymFVFXyG24W2w=; b=reM84ImhtNNfcxEC7EIRsf3wigDMFEH8b5HzDoYCeaaqpA4T48OFYW3W1fyzVN0GjDn161Fa0JCAxUsk2t026DtHF7sDvCj+zzH2KFAdK1eu/6P3LeKMJtdL4jsVWB1qfTJ6HTJspc1X8LjoObTkLyFMKGkIQNj5uVVbM/ODIQw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SMC/rRWuPj8o1d5zTQgIJNgqY1JIT290gR1oZUK/uSnNlftXRZxro43M3cyTZi6YRXDNameF+9n/OVptJY3J3in7ogc37CTnem9N6xznO952jP356xBNSTjk6mqtAz8dmq87CXQVzbJgrGPZOYrnYC8mOoElT6OKP8i5VoujN4A= Received: by 10.141.107.13 with SMTP id j13mr3887415rvm.1194476442897; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.115.4 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:00:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711071445p7cfb6cffx83adb1d84d6bf9d8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Nov 8, 2007 9:45 AM, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 11/7/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > In project root: > > > git log arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx > > > works as expected > > > > > > cd arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx > > > git log arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx > > > fatal: ambiguous argument 'arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx': unknown > > > revision or path not in the working tree. > > > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions > > > > Try "git log ." > > Shouldn't git log default to "git log ."? It might be nice if it did, but since Git tracks whole *trees* (not files) then it makes more sense to show the log of the repository in its default mode. On the other hand, it'd sure be nice if git-status would show relative paths when you're in subdirectories, especially when you're in a deeply nested directory hierarchy. It's a lot easier to see that "foo.txt" and "../bar.txt" have modifications. Furthermore, it is the relative path that you have to pass to git-add anyway, so quick copy-n-pasting from git-status output often doesn't work. Dave.