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Re: [PATCH 5/5] pathspec: record labels

From
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
May 16, 2016, 19:12 UTC
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On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> "... but for now Git treats it as if it is not set at all" is a valuable
>> information to the user, still?
>
> Not at all.  "What you are using is wrong and there is no guarantee
> what behaviour you would get" is the message we need to convey.
    "Path '%s': Ignoring label set to false; This may behave
differently in future versions of Git."
Maybe even with s/may/will/

I think that conveys both the message about the future as well as "what happened just now in that command"

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Message 14 of 17 in “[PATCHv2 0/5] pathspec labels [WAS: submodule groups]”
  1. Stefan BellerMay 13, 2016
  2. 1/5 Documentation: fix a typoStefan Beller, May 13, 2016
  3. 2/5 Documentation: correct typo in example for querying attributesStefan Beller, May 13, 2016
  4. 3/5 pathspec: move long magic parsing out of prefix_pathspecStefan Beller, May 13, 2016
  5. 4/5 pathspec: move prefix check out of the inner loopStefan Beller, May 13, 2016
  6. 5/5 pathspec: record labelsStefan Beller, May 13, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2016
  8. Stefan BellerMay 16, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2016
  10. Stefan BellerMay 16, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2016
  12. Stefan BellerMay 16, 2016
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2016
  14. Stefan BellerMay 16, 2016
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2016
  16. Stefan BellerMay 16, 2016
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2016

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