Re: [PATCH 0/2] bringing attributes to pathspecs

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2017, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79ka=kV_QQo3ExHmieNUajCvzZejFfmDsKeHr9XR0QvEVmA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170309210756.105566-1-bmwill@google.com>

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:

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> This small series extends the pathspec magic to allow users to specify
> attributes that files must have in order for a pathspec to 'match' a file.
>
> One potential use for this is to allow a repository to specify attributes for a
> set of files.  The user can then specify that attribute as a pathspec to
> perform various operations only on that set of files. One simple example:
>
>         git ls-files -- ":(attr:text)"
>
> can be used to list all of the files with the 'text' attribute.

Thanks for reviving these patches.

I have read through both of them and they look good to me.

Thanks, Stefan