From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:15:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-update-index.txt: Remove obsolete note
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3nEE2mtpRVwuQxfoNZd8Ejpgc=T=GS_jEpXsB@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D9329C5.3060809@elegosoft.com>

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jakob Pfender <jpfender@elegosoft.com> wrote:
> 8dcf39 (Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index) introduced a
> check for files beginning with '.', preventing path names such as
> `./file`, `dir/./file` or `dir/../file` from being added. This was
> reflected in the man page.
>
> d089eba (setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec())
> removed this check without reflecting the change in the man page.

Sounds good.

>  <file>::
>        Files to act on.
> -       Note that files beginning with '.' are discarded. This includes
> -       `./file` and `dir/./file`. If you don't want this, then use
> -       cleaner names.
> -       The same applies to directories ending '/' and paths with '//'
> +       Note that directories ending in '/' and paths with '//' are
> +       discarded.

Do you mean the slashes or the directories are discarded? Directories
are not, I believe.
-- 
Duy