From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 20:00:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 5/5] pathspec: allow querying for attributes
Message-ID: <xmqq37pfrv9y.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7ferrvvd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Just this part:

> The last part "set, unset or value matches" does not make sense,
> though.

I re-read the line and I think you meant

    ?VAR makes a path match if VAR attribute is set, set to false,
    or set to value for the path

and I shouldn't have read it as a 3-tuple ("set", "unset", "value matches"),
but as a 3-tuple ("set", "unset", "value").  That is,

    A path (whose attribute state is one of these three) matches.

So I retract "does not make sense"; it still is "hard to grok", though.