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Re: [PATCH 2/4] add -u: get rid of "treewideupdate" configuration

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 9, 2011, 21:38 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Also make ':' without anything else to mean "there is no pathspec".  This
>>> would allow differences between "git log" and "git log ." run from the top
>>> level of the working tree (the latter simplifies no-op commits away from
>>> the history) to be expressed from a subdirectory by saying "git log :".
>>
>> The intention is good, but reality may need more work.
>
> Wait, what if I say "git grep -- : foo : bar"? I take it we should
> reject on this case?

The patch probably would stuff NULL, "foo", NULL, "bar" in the array, and the first NULL would make the caller turn the array itself into NULL; it is a user error I didn't have to bother while the topic is still in a PoC stage.

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Message 30 of 35 in “Redoing the "add -u" migration plan”
  1. 0/4 Redoing the "add -u" migration planJunio C Hamano, Apr 7, 2011
  2. 1/4 magic pathspec: add tentative ":/path/from/top/level" pathspec supportJunio C Hamano, Apr 7, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2011
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 7, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2011
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 8, 2011
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 7, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2011
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 8, 2011
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2011
  11. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 8, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2011
  13. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 8, 2011
  14. 2/4 add -u: get rid of "treewideupdate" configurationJunio C Hamano, Apr 7, 2011
  15. Jeff KingApr 8, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2011
  17. Jeff KingApr 8, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2011
  19. Jeff KingApr 8, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2011
  22. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 9, 2011
  23. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2011
  24. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 9, 2011
  25. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2011
  26. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 9, 2011
  27. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2011
  28. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 9, 2011
  29. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 9, 2011
  30. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2011
  31. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 3, 2011
  32. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2011
  33. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 3, 2011
  34. 3/4 add: make "add -u/-A" update full tree without pathspec (step 2)Junio C Hamano, Apr 7, 2011
  35. 4/4 add: make "add -u/-A" update full tree without pathspec (step 3)Junio C Hamano, Apr 7, 2011

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