From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:00:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'
Message-ID: <7v4o7mehl2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D6D0A51.9030701@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Also, e.g.,
>
> git grep -e frotz "*.c" ":*.h"
>
> will look in all C files in the cwd and and all headers everywhere.

Ah, that is cute.  I don't know if the syntax is acceptable to the general
public, but I do see the beauty in that approach of marking individual
pathspec as "(the rest is) from root".

Nice.