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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>
Cc: GitList <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] Doc URLs: relative paths imply the dot-respository
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:21:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7gekicqq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379107397-964-2-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (Philip Oakley's message of "Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:23:15 +0100")

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>
> ---
>  Documentation/urls.txt | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
> index 9ccb246..5350a63 100644
> --- a/Documentation/urls.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
> @@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies
>  --local option.
>  endif::git-clone[]
>  
> +Relative paths are relative to the `$GIT_DIR`, thus the path:

Is it?

	git init src dst
        cd src
        git commit --allow-empty -m initial
        cd ../dst
        git fetch ../src HEAD:refs/heads/copy

would work, but if it is relative to $GIT_DIR, the last one would
need to be written as

	git fetch ../../src HEAD:refs/heads/copy

wouldn't it?

> +
> +- '.'
> +
> +is the current repository and acts as if it were a repository
> +named `'.'`.
> +
>  When Git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it
>  attempts to use the 'remote-<transport>' remote helper, if one
>  exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-19 11:54 [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Extend dot repository documentation Philip Oakley
2013-05-19 11:54 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/2] config doc: add dot-repository note Philip Oakley
2013-05-19 17:43   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-20 17:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-20 21:10       ` Philip Oakley
2013-05-19 11:54 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/2] doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery Philip Oakley
2013-05-19 17:39   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-19 22:29     ` Philip Oakley
2013-05-20 17:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-20 21:09       ` Philip Oakley
2013-05-20 22:22         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-21  7:47           ` Philip Oakley
2013-05-21 16:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-21 21:21               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-21 22:33                 ` Philip Oakley
2013-05-21 23:03                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-21 23:24                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-22  0:27                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-22  0:50                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-22  2:57                           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-22 16:50                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-22 22:12                               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-22 22:09                     ` Philip Oakley
2013-05-22 22:15                       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-09-13 21:23 ` [PATCH V2 0/3] Extend dot repository documentation Philip Oakley
2013-09-13 21:23   ` [PATCH V2 1/3] Doc URLs: relative paths imply the dot-respository Philip Oakley
2013-09-13 22:21     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-09-14 20:47       ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-13 21:23   ` [PATCH V2 2/3] config doc: update dot-repository notes Philip Oakley
2013-09-13 22:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-14 20:47       ` Philip Oakley
2013-09-13 21:23   ` [PATCH V2 3/3] doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery Philip Oakley
2013-09-13 22:31     ` Junio C Hamano

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