From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:06:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Recognize magic pathspec as filenames
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In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CY=myfLpAbEA0=LCm+tCgS7jzEAxH3rnwQt4-RXyjW9w@mail.gmail.com>

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

> It's unfortunate that ":" has so many meanings attached to it.

Yeah, I still recall that there were people who said ":/$path looks
similar to the way how the object at the $path in the index is named" as
if it were an advantage.  Maybe they were all misguided ;-).