From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Daniel Finnie <dan@danfinnie•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git ls-files -X option is relative to repo root
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:42:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmw4hmtlw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG4vEKM-2sy0z3=YLS+rgH99w6ukdcNBode9CAh4C4t9eSa02A@mail.gmail.com> (Daniel Finnie's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:23:40 -0500")
Daniel Finnie <dan@danfinnie•com> writes:
> My question deals with the --exclude-from option to git-ls-files.
You will be fine if you remember that these plumbing commands work
by first cd'ing to the top-level of the working tree (and adjust the
paths given from the command line by prefixing the prefix to them).
The input lines that come from --exclude-per-directory should go
through the prefixing, but -X=<file> makes that single file affect
the whole operation. It does not make sense to allow where you are
to affect behaviour of the command, i.e. in these two invocations of
ls-files:
git ls-files -X /var/tmp/exclude -i
cd example && git ls-files -X /var/tmp/exclude -i
if the same line in /var/tmp/exclude meant completely different
things, it would be crazy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-13 19:23 git ls-files -X option is relative to repo root Daniel Finnie
2015-02-13 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-13 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-13 21:19 ` Daniel Finnie
2015-02-13 22:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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