From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 22:02:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] pathspec labels [WAS: submodule groups]
Message-ID: <xmqq8tz91x1b.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbJxf6qnj1vqkbFzXBU+6Cfh6RMvs2NqqeASZAPLFXu8Q@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

>> Hmph, why not?
>
> We need a namespace for which
> * we can guarantee that it is for labeling purposes only (even in the future)
> * is obvious to the user to be a labeling name space
>
> Starting with "label" offers both?

Ah, of course.  I thought that you were trying to limit ":(attr:<attribute>)"
magic only to attributes that begin with "label-", which is where my
"why not?" comes from.