Re: Fwd: Possibly nicer pathspec syntax?

> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> >
> > As such, the default positive match should be ':/' (which is shorter and
> > less cumbersome than ':(top)', btw)
> 
> So that's what my patch does.
> 
> However, it's actually very counter-intuitive in a subdirectory.
> 
> Git doesn't do much of that, but let me give you an example from the
> kernel. Again, this is not an example of anything I would do (because
> I'm always at the top), but:
> 
>   [torvalds@i7 linux]$ cd drivers/
>   [torvalds@i7 drivers]$ ll
> 
>   .. whee, *lots* of diorectories ..
>   .. lets see what happened in net/ ..
> 
>   [torvalds@i7 drivers]$ git diff -M --dirstat=1,cumulative
> v4.10-rc6..v4.10-rc7 -- net/
>      7.4% drivers/net/ethernet/adaptec/
>     47.9% drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/
>      7.1% drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/
>      1.1% drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/
>      3.6% drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/
>     23.5% drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/
>     27.2% drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/
>     92.5% drivers/net/ethernet/
>      5.3% drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/
>      5.9% drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/
>    100.0% drivers/net/
> 
>   .. let's see what happened *outside* of net/ ..
> 
> [torvalds@i7 drivers]$ git diff -M --dirstat=1,cumulative
> v4.10-rc6..v4.10-rc7 -- :^net/
>    2.4% arch/arm64/crypto/
>    2.1% arch/powerpc/include/asm/
>    1.5% arch/powerpc/kernel/
>    3.9% arch/powerpc/
>    3.5% arch/sparc/kernel/
>    4.1% arch/sparc/
>    8.3% arch/x86/events/intel/
>    1.7% arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/
>    1.6% arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/
>    3.3% arch/x86/kernel/cpu/
>    3.8% arch/x86/kernel/
>    1.0% arch/x86/platform/efi/
>   13.3% arch/x86/
>   24.0% arch/
>    1.1% drivers/base/
>    2.9% drivers/dma/
>   12.3% drivers/gpu/drm/i915/
>    1.0% drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/
>   16.2% drivers/gpu/drm/
>    3.9% drivers/hid/
>    1.6% drivers/iio/
>    2.3% drivers/regulator/
>    ...
> 
> Notice? When you say "show only the net subdirectory" it does the
> obvious thing relative to the current working directory, but if you
> say "show everything _but_ the net subdirectory" it suddenly starts
> showing other things.