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Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in 2.11.0 RelNotes

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HAHenrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com>
Date
Oct 28, 2016, 15:33 UTC
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On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 06:03 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> If the original text were like the following, would it have been
> clear enough that prevented you from sending your patch?
> 
>  * An empty string used as a pathspec element has always meant
>    'everything matches', but it is too easy to write a script that
>    finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"' by 
>    mistake (when the user meant to give "$path"), which ends up
>    removing everything.  This release starts warning about the
>    use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and
>    asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead.

Oops. Yes, but not sure if it really needs to be clear enough even for idiots like me. :-) Sorry.

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  1. Fix typo in 2.11.0 RelNotesHenrik Ahlgren, Oct 28, 2016
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