breaks when the file path contains duplicate dir names about pathpicker

[pcottle]

Yeah this is unfortunately an issue with git's output when it (thinks) there is not much space on the terminal. It truncates the path to .../ (notice the three dots) which basically blasts away all information about the path.

@jingc ran into this as well, not sure what we can do here

[Chandler]

I couldn't figure out how to make git diff --stat use fully qualified paths but there are some other commands that do work.

git diff --numstat HEAD~1 | fpp

git diff --name-status HEAD~1 | fpp

[pcottle]

Yeah I checked the man pages, --numstat should not abbreviate the path names;

       --numstat
           Similar to --stat, but shows number of added and deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without abbreviation, to make it
           more machine friendly. For binary files, outputs two - instead of saying 0 0.

Closing out since we can't do much here besides suggest --numstat if we detect a .../ pathname, and I'd be worried about that being noisy. Do you think that's worth adding?

[Chandler]

I ran into this error the very first time I tried fpp and spent a few min trying to figure it out so I imagine the hint would be pretty useful. Especially if we are sure that "..." is only used to indicate truncation and not a valid path (... is technically valid).

Could just put a note about the --stat issue in the readme, since --stat is the example used in the demo.

[pcottle]

Yeah lets at least do the readme thing. I'll see what I can do in the meantime though, since it is pretty confusing. ideally we actually output an error...

[pcottle]

getting there...

[pcottle]

^^ alright that should be a huge improvement