From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:00:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 40/45] parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Prefix length is not preserved across commands when --literal-pathspecs
> is specified (no magic is allowed, including 'prefix'). That's OK
> because we all paths are literal. No magic, no special treatment

s/we all/we know all/
...or...
s/we all/all/

> We could also preserve 'prefix' across commands is quote the prefix
> part, then dequote on receiving. But it may not be 100% accurate, we

s/is quote/by quoting/
s/dequote/dequoting/

> may dequote longer than the original prefix part, for example. That
> may be good or not, but it's not the purpose.