On 03/02/2011 11:53 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> [*] I keep forgetting that some people may have files whose names begin
>> with ":". They are ambiguous now already with "treeish pathspec"
>> commands, but not with "pathspec" commands. The latter would change.
> Just to make sure I understand that they have easy workarounds:
>
> - If you have a path foo/:bar, you can say
>
> git log master -- foo/:bar
>
> because ':' signals the magic and gets stripped only when it is at the
> beginning (i.e. not affecting foo/:bar); and
>
> - For :boz at the root level, you can say
>
> git log master -- '\:boz'
>
> because the backslash in '\:boz' makes the colon not at the beginning and
> the glob match sees '\:boz' and then matches '\:' with literal ':' at the
> beginning of the pathname ":boz".
Easy workaround, maybe, but still a potential problem for unsuspecting
scripts.
- I think this fails in a directory with :foo.c
git log master -- *.c
- Would this work, though?
git log master -- "*.c"
Phil
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