Re: [PATCH 2/2] pathspec: don't error out on all-exclusionary pathspec patterns

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CWCornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>

Date

Feb 8, 2017, 13:23 UTC

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<35bd1d35-4cb8-cf40-38ee-7442efc0f139@tngtech.com>

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<alpine.LFD.2.20.1702072113380.25002@i7.lan>

Again, as Duy pointed out this should be documented.

How about something like this:

diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index f127fe9..781cde3 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -387,7 +387,9 @@ Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic.
 exclude;;
        After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run
        through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!` or `^`). If it
-       matches, the path is ignored.
+       matches, the path is ignored. If only exclude pathspec are given,
+       the exclusion is applied to the result set as if invoked without any
+       pathspec.
 --
 
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