From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:21:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'
Message-ID: <4D6F4F8E.6090905@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D6F1035.1040902@cisco.com>

Phil Hord venit, vidit, dixit 03.03.2011 04:51:
> On 03/01/2011 07:12 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> 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 ':'. 

msysgit anyone?

Michael