From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:39:53 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Define "precious" attribute and support it in `git clean` Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9C4A2AFD-AAA2-4ABA-8A8B-2133FD870366@icloud.com> Sebastian Thiel writes: > But if there is now a prefix, I feel that it might as well be chosen so that it > is easier to remember and/or less likely to cause conflicts. Another criteria is that it is not very often used in real pathnames, of course, and '!' and '$' are good ones. Come to think of it, we might be able to retrofit '!' without too much damage. Something like "!unignored" is now a deprecated but still supported way to say "!!unignored", "!*precious" is new, and "\!anything" is a pathname that begins with '!'. > Yes, I think my paragraph above is exactly that but with examples to practice > the new syntax-proposal. OK.