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 02:22:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20080721002248.GJ10151@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> <20080721000824.GI10151@machine.or.cz> <7vljzw14br.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 02:23:52 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 1KKjBt-0001N7-Jl for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:23:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755253AbYGUAWu (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:22:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755223AbYGUAWu (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:22:50 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:43637 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754539AbYGUAWu (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:22:50 -0400 Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id B121D393B32D; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vljzw14br.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 05:14:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I never thought you would think "showing relative to tree-root" is even an > option. I assume you mean "not filtering relative to tree-root"? > That would make it inconsistent with not just the established > semantics of what the plumbing did, but also with what ls-files does. But ls-files always works on the index; ls-tree can work on trees, and when you're inspecting a non-root tree object from within a subdirectory, this behaviour can be rather unexpected. But as I said, I'm fine with just documenting it. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name. -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie