From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 16:17:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] add -u: get rid of "treewideupdate" configuration
Message-ID: <BANLkTimVg2sDZzeRyVEJC-Sq4ojs=AQ=rg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4o5bkevi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Duy