From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: got log and subdirectories?
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:49:05 +0100

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 05:19:48PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 04:29:47PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > However, when you specify an explicit path
> > argument, it gets appended to the subdirectory:
> > 
> > $ got log tog 
> > got: tog/tog: no such entry found in tree
> > 
> > Clearly, something isn't quite right, but I don't know what the
> > "correct" behavior should be.

> As a workaround, this works in any subdirectory: got log .

So this may not be a bug after all.

Since your above 'got log tog' is run inside the tog/ subdir in
a worktree, logging the path 'tog/tog' is an expected result.
It just logs a path that does not exist.

Note that this logs the history of tog/tog.c: cd tog/; got log tog.c

The thing to keep in mind is that you can use tab-completion to get
the log of any file or directory, if you are in a work tree.
Commands such as this do work: cd tog/; got log ../got/got.c

I think what we need to do here is expand the documentation as follows:

diff f70ffbb53218e6d26d9ef6babd8c106b105db18b /home/stsp/src/got
blob - 709b28475adcddd7a3952eb8c6d2cfcc50a08386
file + got/got.1
--- got/got.1
+++ got/got.1
@@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ Display history of a repository.
 If a
 .Ar path
 is specified, show only commits which modified this path.
+If invoked in a work tree, the
+.Ar path
+is interpreted relative to the current working directory,
+and the work tree's path prefix is implicitly prepended.
+Otherwise, the path is interpreted relative to the repository root.
 .Pp
 The options for
 .Cm got log
blob - dc2613f1948e568e578c8d9c6b54e1296b91ca7d
file + tog/tog.1
--- tog/tog.1
+++ tog/tog.1
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ Display history of a repository.
 If a
 .Ar path
 is specified, show only commits which modified this path.
+If invoked in a work tree, the
+.Ar path
+is interpreted relative to the current working directory,
+and the work tree's path prefix is implicitly prepended.
+Otherwise, the path is interpreted relative to the repository root.
 .Pp
 This command is also executed if no explicit command is specified.
 .Pp