From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 02:26:16 GMT
Subject: Re: multiple source file extensions
Message-ID: <xmqqfv7ewg53.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cT8kP0NrmXXn-chBU+zjM_28NT5CVivda2NDs_mxuepzQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

>> I agree we don't really need curly braces in pathspecs. :)
>
> However, neither POSIX shells nor the Windows command interpreter
> support curly-brace alternation.

Why "However"?  Neither of them offer it because their users do not
need it---why should we give it only when they are using Git and
only for the in-repo contents (we obviously cannot help when their
users want to refer to the working tree files)?