Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] doc: git-checkout: clarify DESCRIPTION section
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025, at 01:22, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
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>> There should be a gitpathspecs(7). Not just a glossary entry.
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> This sounds like a good #leftoverbits topic for new-ish people to
> work on, with help from old timers? I do agree that the entry in
> the glossary has grown to be way too big. The pathspec magic itself
> should be mentioned there in the glossary, but the details of it
> feels a bit too much and the topic probably deserves its own manual
> page, just like gitrevisions(7) has one.
I added it to the unofficial tracker.
https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/1971
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Kristoffer Haugsbakk