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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-12-06 09:15:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-12-06 09:15:39 -0800 |
| commit | c7860507f0b8974359616d7047f76f1723843156 (patch) | |
| tree | f7f11bb7827a2306104341caafb4734bb92fef02 /Documentation | |
| parent | do not discard status in fetch_refs_via_pack() (diff) | |
| download | tgif-c7860507f0b8974359616d7047f76f1723843156.tar.xz | |
git-status documentation: mention subdirectory behaviour
Consistently with all other diff oriented commands, we have given paths
relative to the work tree root in git-status output for a long time.
This documents the recent behaviour change, as people's eyes (and worse
yet, scripts, although scripts should not parse "git status" output) may
depend on the old behaviour.
In the longer run, giving a --full-name option to git-diff Porcelain
similar to what ls-files has, and change the default for git-diff
Porcelain to show relative paths may be a good thing to do, in order to
hide the oddballness of this git-status behaviour, but that would have a
rather large impact to established expectation by existing users.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 8fd0fc6236..b0cb6bc8b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ OUTPUT The output from this command is designed to be used as a commit template comments, and all the output lines are prefixed with '#'. +The paths mentioned in the output, unlike many other git commands, are +made relative to the current directory, if you are working in a +subdirectory (this is on purpose, to help cutting and pasting). + CONFIGURATION ------------- |