Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I agree we don't really need curly braces in pathspecs. :) > > However, neither POSIX shells nor the Windows command interpreter > support curly-brace alternation. Why "However"? Neither of them offer it because their users do not need it---why should we give it only when they are using Git and only for the in-repo contents (we obviously cannot help when their users want to refer to the working tree files)? -- 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