From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:13:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':'
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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?
-- 
Duy