This does only git-diff-cache and git-diff-files, but the concept
should work for any command that uses the working tree.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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This is really partly a serious patch, but also just a query whether
people would want git to work in subdirectories,
At Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:45:35 -0700 (PDT),
Linus Torvalds wrote:
This is really partly a serious patch, but also just a query whether
people would want git to work in subdirectories, not just the top-level
directory.
So you can be in linux/drivers, and if you do a
git-diff-files
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you use the GIT_DIR environment variable approach, it assumes that all
filenames you give it are absolute and acts the way it always did before.
Comments? Like? Dislike?
Comments: Wouldn't that mean git-*-scripts would not benefit from this
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Comments: Wouldn't that mean git-*-scripts would not benefit from this
because git-sh-setup would set GIT_DIR for you even if
you don't?
As it stands now, yes. But the point being that if people like this, then
I'll just
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you want to take the current patch (which buys you very little because
not a lot of stuff has been set up to deal with it, but is the basis for
all future work anyway) or do you want me to polish it up a bit and
re-submit the whole thing?
The
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
If you use the GIT_DIR environment variable approach, it assumes that all
filenames you give it are absolute and acts the way it always did before.
Comments? Like? Dislike?
I'm all in favor, at least in the general case. I suspect there'll be some
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
The developement history would look nicer if you did the latter,
but I am easy and can go either way.
Here is.
I'd do at least the git-diff-tree part and the ./ and ../ handling,
and convert at least the git diff thing to the new world order
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mostly done. It actually works from inside subdirectories, but . at the
top-level is still not done. Small detail. Will fix later. But it would
help if you would apply this, since I'm going to be off for dinner..
Merged, pushed out, and tested. Ouch.
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Merged, pushed out, and tested. Ouch. Fails on t test.
It's because the new git-diff-files expects there to be a valid readable
.git/HEAD, and is unhappy since the test hasn't updated HEAD.
This trivial patch fixes it.
Linus
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Merged, pushed out, and tested. Ouch. Fails on t test.
It's because the new git-diff-files expects there to be a valid readable
.git/HEAD, and is unhappy since the test hasn't updated HEAD.
Ah, good
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