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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:44:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpmkafmb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160522190404.GA20998@kitenet.net> (Joey Hess's message of "Sun, 22 May 2016 15:04:04 -0400")

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> writes:

> This seems to make it basically impossible for any program that wants to
> use GIT_INDEX_FILE to use anything other than an absolute path;
> there are too many configurations to keep straight that could change how
> git interprets what should be a simple relative path to a file.

Thanks for digging.  Perhaps this needs to be documented (not "in
this case it is take as relative to that, in this other case, ...",
but "you cannot rely on relative being relative to something you
think").

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-23 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-17 17:18 GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir Joey Hess
2016-05-17 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-17 18:26   ` Joey Hess
2016-05-22 19:04     ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 16:44       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-05-23 17:29         ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 18:30           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-23 18:52             ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 19:44               ` Junio C Hamano

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