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Re: [RFD] Place to document magic pathspecs like ":/" and pathspec handling

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jun 29, 2016, 19:51 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have noticed that the magic pathspec ":/" is described only in RelNotes
> for revision 1.7.6:
> |I think the reason might be that there was no good place to put that
> information in.  Nowadays we have gitcli(7) manual page, but perhaps
$ git help glossary
look for pathspec.
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