From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:41:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] doc: git-checkout: clarify DESCRIPTION section
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2025, at 01:22, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> There should be a gitpathspecs(7).  Not just a glossary entry.
>
> 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