From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore
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In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DhymVp1ncHvtqd4S7TkBDQvNKBf3A0JTft9bX8_-WX_w@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> My objection is no-op lines are timed bombs. But users can already do
> "dir attr" (no slashes), which is no-op. So yeah, no-op is fine.

Exactly. If you are not catching and barfing the no-slashed variant
at the syntax level (and you shouldn't), you shouldn't do so for
slashed ones.