Re: [PATCH 0/7] submodule groups

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: May 12, 2016, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79ka-d9skygE-LeoFz4ENY48mnn9CzVDmLvYSXH3PNVy3ug@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq37pnj04f.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>
>     git cmd -- \*.perl \*.pl \*.pm
>
> I've often wondered if it would be a good idea to let attributes
> file to specify "these paths form the group Perl" with something
> like:
>
>     *.pm        group=perl
>     *.pl        group=perl
>     *.perl      group=perl
>     *.h         group=c
>     *.c         group=c
>
> and say
>
>     git cmd -- ':(group=perl)'
>
> instead.

How is that different to the file size example I gave earlier? You could have a change which includes:

    -    *.pl    group=prolog
    +    *.pl   group=perl

What happens in the diff/log case then (just as a file can pass an arbitrary file size within that change) ? These file attributes are as arbitrary as sizes as well as submodule labels or names.