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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Hagins <hagins.josh@gmail.com>,
	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: multiple source file extensions
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 22:33:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150502023320.GB587@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150502020431.GA15775@lanh>

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 09:04:32AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] Avoid the need of "--" when wildcard pathspec is used
> [..]
> This patch modifies the rules a bit by considering any valid (*)
> wildcard pathspec "exist in worktree". The rules become:
> 
>  (1) if an arg is a rev, then it must either exist in worktree or not
>      be a valid wildcard pathspec.
> 
>  (2) else, it either exists in worktree or is a wildcard pathspec
> 
>  (3) else, "--" is required.
> 
> With the new rules, "--" is not needed most of the time when wildcard
> pathspec is involved.

I like it. Since this is a DWIM code path anyway, I don't think it
should be a problem in practice (i.e., if you are trying to do something
crazy like match a literal path that has a '*' in it, you really should
be using "--" in the first place).

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-02  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-02  0:40 multiple source file extensions Thiago Farina
2015-05-02  0:49 ` Josh Hagins
2015-05-02  1:11   ` Jeff King
2015-05-02  2:04     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-05-02  2:11       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-05-02  2:35         ` Jeff King
2015-05-02  7:11           ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-03  2:26             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-02  2:33       ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-04 22:12     ` Thiago Farina
2015-05-05  3:43       ` Jeff King
2015-05-05 17:30         ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-05-05 19:12           ` Jeff King

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