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Re: [PATCH] improve documentation for some commands that use pathspecs

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 3, 2015, 13:55 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> wrote:
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> After being surprised that git-ls-files expands pathspecs, here's a patch
> that would have saved me.
> ---
>  Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 9 +++++----
>  Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt  | 8 ++++----

ls-tree only supports straight file or directory paths, no globbing or other magic (except ":/") so I'm not sure if we should change its man page now. On the bright side, if you use unsupported pathspec feature on ls-tree, it'll reject, so not so bad.

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Duy
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