Re: [PATCH 2/4] add -u: get rid of "treewideupdate" configuration
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I need someone to enlighten me again. Why do we need ":" for "no
>> pathspec" when we can simply specify no pathspec for the same effect?
>
> Futureproofing. Currently "log" family defaults to "tree-wide" when there
> is no pathspec, but imagine what happens when a command like "log" that
> knows how to simplify history defaults to "current directory". You cannot
> override it by "git that-cmd :/", which would give it a single tree-wide
> pathspec, not "no pathspec". It will still cull empty commits.
OK, empty commits. I see. Will test it that way.
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Duy