Re: Why does git-grep appear to treat exclude pathspecs differently?
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Aug 2, 2025, 17:12 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> PS I didn't even know that we allowed multiple short items or a trailing > colon until your email! Hidden corners of Git.
But once you think about them, it all makes sense. The trailing colon can help strange folks who have paths that begin with one of these strange byte values ;-).