Subject: Re: [TopGit PATCH] tg-patch: fix invocation in sub working tree directory

From: Uwe Kleine-König <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:02:11 +0100

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:08:19PM +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> tg patch won't work in a sub directory of the working tree, because 'git diff
> --name-only' prints the names relative to the top working tree.
Hhhm, that's not exactly the problem.

	git diff --patch-with-stat 45c82b5 t/trivial/typo-kernel -- $path

expects $path to be relative to the top working tree.

IMHO this is a strange behaviour of core git when comparing two trees
(and not a tree and the wc).  Moreover as the output uses "absolute"
paths:

	ukleinek@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6/fs$ git diff --patch-with-stat 45c82b5 t/trivial/typo-kernel -- proc/nommu.c | diffstat -p0
 b/fs/proc/nommu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Best regards
Uwe

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