Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 01.03.2011 12:13: > 2011/3/1 Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Introduce a leading ':' as the notation for repo-wide pathspecs. >> >> This is in line with our treeish:path notation which defaults to >> repowide paths. >> >> Heck: Even ':./path' works for pathspecs, and I have no clue why! > > If you are going to turn pathspecs into something more complex, > reserve room for future extension. I have negative pathspecs that can > utilize it. > > I take it, from now on people must refer file name ':foo' as './:foo' > with your patch? That is up for discussion, of course. When discussing a new approach for file mode dependent attributes, I was hoping to get through with symlink:path, and did not. But it was decided that something like :symlink:path would be good enough, in the sense of avoiding enough possible conflicts. That made me hope that :path would be, too. (I have not checked for interaction of those two, which are in flight.) I would think that file names like ":foo" are problematic on msys already, so in a sense they are no-no already, and free to take as special notation. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html