From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:52:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'
Message-ID: <7vy64w97yi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <buo4o7kc4ce.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> 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".