Re: [PATCH 7/8] setup_tree_pathspec(): interpret '^' as negative pathspec

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2010, 16:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7viq288g2z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1283961023-4491-8-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> This patch does preparation work for tree exclusion in
> tree_entry_interesting(). '^' has similar meaning to '!' in
> gitexcludes. '!' is not used because bash does not like arguments with
> a leading '!'.

Do not even mention gitexcludes as you have to make awkward excuse like this.

Instead say something like

    '^' works exactly like prefix '^' for revs (e.g. "log ^maint master")
    to mark what is prefixed is excluded.

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