On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Good morning! I'm saner now. How about :/path? That would reserve anything next to ':' except '/'. -- Duy -- 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