Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I need someone to enlighten me again. Why do we need ":" for "no > pathspec" when we can simply specify no pathspec for the same effect? Futureproofing. Currently "log" family defaults to "tree-wide" when there is no pathspec, but imagine what happens when a command like "log" that knows how to simplify history defaults to "current directory". You cannot override it by "git that-cmd :/", which would give it a single tree-wide pathspec, not "no pathspec". It will still cull empty commits. -- 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