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Re: [RFD] Place to document magic pathspecs like ":/" and pathspec handling

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jun 29, 2016, 21:28 UTC
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Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> But I think it is not the best place to keep this documentation.

All true. In case it was not obvious, I didn't mean to say "Here you find the information, shut up." It was "here is a pointer if you didn't find it, so that you can use it as a starting point to make a better documentation."

An analogous entity in the world model of Git that appears everywhere and is not limited to a single command is the revision set calculus. Where do we describe it and how do we make it discoverable? Can the new way to describe pathspec and pathspec magic mimic the way it is done for the revisions?

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