Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Mar 3, 2011, 03:52 UTC
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes: >>> Would this ':' >>> trick affect that argument? If a command is relative to the cwd with no >>> pathspec, you can now give a single ':' to affect the whole tree. >> >> In my view yes. I would even say: If we don't change every single >> command to repo-wide default there is no need to change (and break >> things) if we have an easy one-character way of saying "repo-wide". > > ... except, of course that the current state is still confusingly > inconsistent....
You should know that we are already in violent agreement, if you re-read my message where I say "a good default matters".