Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Also make ':' without anything else to mean "there is no pathspec". ÂThis >>> would allow differences between "git log" and "git log ." run from the top >>> level of the working tree (the latter simplifies no-op commits away from >>> the history) to be expressed from a subdirectory by saying "git log :". >> >> The intention is good, but reality may need more work. > > Wait, what if I say "git grep -- : foo : bar"? I take it we should > reject on this case? The patch probably would stuff NULL, "foo", NULL, "bar" in the array, and the first NULL would make the caller turn the array itself into NULL; it is a user error I didn't have to bother while the topic is still in a PoC stage. -- 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