Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'

> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 01.03.2011 12:13:
>> 2011/3/1 Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>:
>>> Introduce a leading ':' as the notation for repo-wide pathspecs.
>>>
>>> This is in line with our treeish:path notation which defaults to
>>> repowide paths.
>>>
>>> Heck: Even ':./path' works for pathspecs, and I have no clue why!
>>
>> If you are going to turn pathspecs into something more complex,
>> reserve room for future extension. I have negative pathspecs that can
>> utilize it.
>>
>> I take it, from now on people must refer file name ':foo' as './:foo'
>> with your patch?
>
> That is up for discussion, of course. When discussing a new approach for
> file mode dependent attributes, I was hoping to get through with
> symlink:path, and did not. But it was decided that something like
> :symlink:path would be good enough, in the sense of avoiding enough
> possible conflicts. That made me hope that :path would be, too.