From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:40:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pathspec: rename per-item field has_wildcard to use_wildcard
Message-ID: <7v62qo4jmp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D9EC75F.1060901@drmicha.warpmail.net>

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

> Maybe we can make the ":" literal
> when it can't be parsed, or make it do something (":/" as you
> suggested), because swallowing it and then doing nothing seems doubly bad.

Another possible tweak would be to make ":" without even any "pattern"
after it to become a no-element, in order to allow the same difference
between "git log" and "git log ." to be expressed from within a
subdirectory.

The difference matters when you have commits created with --allow-empty
that are discarded by path based history simplification.