Re: [PATCH v3] Support ent:relative_path

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

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
> 
> 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.

First, we now usually use 'tree-ish' or 'treeish', not 'ent'.
Second, it is ':/<text>', not '<tree-ish>:/<text>'

git-rev-parse(1):

 * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text: this names
   a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text.
   This name returns the youngest matching commit which is
   reachable from any ref.  If the commit message starts with a
   '!', you have to repeat that;  the special sequence ':/!',
   followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now.

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Jakub Narebski
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