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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:19:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4m16sm5v.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e100d30a-5ee8-8485-5012-f9b1c6961ffa@google.com> (Richard Hansen's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:27:41 -0500")

Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com> writes:

> On 2017-01-10 01:58, Jeff King wrote:
> ...
>> What happens in a bare repository?
>>
>> I'm guessing it's relative to the top-level of the repository,
>
> I just tried it out and it's relative to $PWD.

That is understandable.  When the user says

    $ cmd -O $file

with any option -O that takes a filename, it is most natural if we
used $PWD/$file when $file is not absolute path.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10  0:40 [PATCH 0/2] minor diff orderfile documentation improvements Richard Hansen
2017-01-10  0:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile Richard Hansen
2017-01-10  6:58   ` Jeff King
2017-01-10 17:27     ` Richard Hansen
2017-01-10 20:19       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-01-10 20:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-10 22:01           ` Richard Hansen
2017-01-10 22:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-11 14:41               ` Jeff King
2017-01-11 20:53                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-10  0:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] diff: document the pattern format for diff.orderFile Richard Hansen
2017-01-10 20:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-11  1:14     ` Richard Hansen
2017-01-11  2:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-11 17:24         ` Richard Hansen
2017-01-11 18:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-11 18:36             ` Richard Hansen
2017-01-11 21:06               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-11  1:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] diff orderfile documentation improvements Richard Hansen
2017-01-11  1:57   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile Richard Hansen
2017-01-11  1:57   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] diff: document the format of the -O (diff.orderFile) file Richard Hansen
2017-01-15 22:16   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] diff orderfile documentation improvements Richard Hansen
2017-01-15 22:16     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile Richard Hansen
2017-01-15 22:16     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] diff: document the format of the -O (diff.orderFile) file Richard Hansen

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