Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
quoted text > Then you make an untracked directory called untracked/. Tradition
> dictates that when we're in that directory, we get the prefix
> "untracked/", because we might add a file, or reference a file in another
> branch, where that directory is _not_ untracked.
The test is modelled after the install script; Documentation/ (the CWD
during 'make quick-install-doc') is not tracked in branch origin/man.
quoted text > So it is expected that checkout-index and ls-files behave differently
> in a subdirectory (even if that is currently untracked).
>
> It seems a bit counterintuitive that read-tree succeeds, but really,
> read-tree is only a commit -> index operation, which should not care about
> the current prefix. So it is fine.
>
> Checkout-index, instead, is an index -> working tree operation, and for
> most of these, we care about the current prefix (so that you can say git
> checkout-index file1, where file1 is in the current directory, which is
> _not_ the working tree root).
OK, makes sense.
Thanks,
Ren
