On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Russ Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using git checkout-index --temp to obtain copies of files from > the index, but it does not always print valid file names unless run > from the repository root. > > git checkout-index --temp prints names of files in the index > interpreted relative to the current directory below the repository > root. > > If you have a git repo in /tmp/gitbug, you are in /tmp/gitbug/dir1, > and you run git checkout-index --temp /tmp/gitbug/dir1/file1, the file > listing prints just "file1". So far so good. > > However, this file name shortening appears to assume that all file > names being printed will be within the subtree rooted at the current > directory, and it just skips over the first N characters in the name, > where N is the length of the current directory name relative to the > repo root (in the above example, N = len("dir1/") = 5).
Indeed, although the "checkout" functionality of checkout-index properly handles relative paths above the current directory, the code which prints them doesn't. I'm working up a patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
