From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:23:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] magic pathspec: add tentative ":/path/from/top/level" pathspec support
Message-ID: <BANLkTint7sGCg7_seu1-SWJC=_sKF-FKYw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1302138996-10006-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> +The "magic signature" consists of an ASCII symbol that is not
> +alphanumeric.

Except dot, as Michael pointed out in another email, so we can write
":/.foo" instead of ":/:.foo". I'm tempted to rule out wildcards as
well (star, backslash, question mark and square brackets)

Also the patch does not catch this (ie. not die() on unrecognized signature).
-- 
Duy