From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:48:30 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2013, #04; Wed, 13)
Message-ID: <20131115064830.GA30234@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqob5ndho5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:07:54PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * nd/liteal-pathspecs (2013-10-28) 1 commit
>   (merged to 'next' on 2013-11-01 at 1a91775)
>  + pathspec: stop --*-pathspecs impact on internal parse_pathspec() uses
> 
>  Will cook in 'next'.

I think we want this to be part of v1.8.5. It is a fix for a regression
that appeared in master post-1.8.4:

  $ git.v1.8.4 --literal-pathspecs blame Makefile | wc -l
  2596

  $ git.v1.8.5-rc2 --literal-pathspecs blame Makefile | wc -l
  fatal: Makefile: pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'literal'
  0

Sorry to mention it so late into the -rc cycle, but I just noticed that
the patch hadn't graduated.

-Peff