From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a notice to the doc of git-ls-tree. Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:08:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20080721000824.GI10151@machine.or.cz> References: <1216592735-23789-1-git-send-email-code@istique.net> <20080720230846.GH32184@machine.or.cz> <7vy73w16nj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzek15b5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steve =?iso-8859-2?Q?Fr=E9cinaux?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 02:09:36 2008 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 1KKiy3-0006tr-Ig for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:09:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758599AbYGUAI2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:08:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758212AbYGUAI2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:08:28 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:51217 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758550AbYGUAI0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:08:26 -0400 Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id B1598393B32D; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:08:24 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vtzek15b5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:53:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > > > Petr Baudis writes: > > > >> I think that ls-tree simply shouldn't auto-fill its pathspec based on > >> current prefix in case no pathspec was supplied. Patch to follow. > > > > Have you dug the list archive from mid-to-late December 2005 that prompted > > the current behaviour (and introduction of --full-name)? I haven't. > > Now, I did: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/13028/focus=13135 > > I think the answer is --full-name (cf. a69dd58 (ls-tree: chomp leading > directories when run from a subdirectory, 2005-12-23)). I don't understand your point now. --full-name cares only about the displaying part; do you suggest that it should be extended to also turn off prepending the prefix during the filtering phase? That would make a lot of sense, if you are not worried about compatibility trouble. -- Petr "Pasky, missing something" Baudis As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name. -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie