From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':' Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:21:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4D6F4F8E.6090905@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <4D6CD593.2090705@drmicha.warpmail.net> <4D6F1035.1040902@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Phil Hord X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 03 09:25:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pv3qc-00034y-91 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:25:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757224Ab1CCIZE (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:25:04 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:41225 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753591Ab1CCIZB (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:25:01 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED5620906; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:25:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:25:01 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=+FNjBtZf59kxozZ5LZlNUxQpA04=; b=qJwOf41N3kVOpAf5py/mnOGjZk3n150WDSGQW1boY+8MVPy07KzlfdKV1XdhofqQuuxtCQjDEj85S1JgRKEn+Rzd8sfKSGwOvEkTX5012e0cjaYjmoFUtWuobZFUb0Sihz4p2VvhP49FIGHeLtWpzevI/lAOZlHmmk7dJ967dOA= X-Sasl-enc: aAI+2hko3U1LDldS+z/SoptfGDCA5Kq/svf93v+IZchL 1299140700 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 168C1408125; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:24:59 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110301 Remi/fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: <4D6F1035.1040902@cisco.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Phil Hord venit, vidit, dixit 03.03.2011 04:51: > On 03/01/2011 07:12 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Michael J Gruber >> wrote: >>> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 01.03.2011 12:13: >>>> 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 '/'. > > I like this. The only 'failure' that comes to mind is something like > > git log -- */*.c > > when there's a subdirectory named ':'. msysgit anyone? Michael