Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'

From: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2011, 03:51 UTC
Message-ID: <4D6F1035.1040902@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2HmBEQv=buRG7-87+c99FnsxXUTQzKy__azfM@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/01/2011 07:12 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 01.03.2011 12:13:
>>> If you are going to turn pathspecs into something more complex,
>>> reserve room for future extension. I have negative pathspecs that can
>>> utilize it.
>>>
>>> I take it, from now on people must refer file name ':foo' as './:foo'
>>> with your patch?
>> That is up for discussion, of course. When discussing a new approach for
>> file mode dependent attributes, I was hoping to get through with
>> symlink:path, and did not. But it was decided that something like
>> :symlink:path would be good enough, in the sense of avoiding enough
>> possible conflicts. That made me hope that :path would be, too.
> Good morning! I'm saner now. How about :/path? That would reserve
> anything next to ':' except '/'.

I like this.  The only 'failure' that comes to mind is something like

     git log -- */*.c

when there's a subdirectory named ':'.

Phil