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: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:16:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4D6CD593.2090705@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 01 12:20:08 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 1PuNcd-0008It-Pm for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:20:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756094Ab1CALUB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:20:01 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:44637 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755822Ab1CALUA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:20:00 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184E220782; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:20:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:20:00 -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=I1+N98qc8wxdhSCpulMX+7g8hHQ=; b=jyKyz8cGQV0/j6i1jVDHKT0EDVQ0UCYkQ12g5VqhgKXs/ujG2PBZn8Q5+j9okjYxmEcbmZiTlv860en76/XUOvBk/B+IeK1f4sbKFd7W+6+15xTghlyn+levdXvlKD0XohYbJO/7R402EXv8hqm69aVMklEFGHoe2xpPmJiZb6s= X-Sasl-enc: 89UYielWASQ39rDvh5QRA1V4CI7hPaDjJf/mG665JhAw 1298978399 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78481442B4A; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:19:59 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 01.03.2011 12:13: > 2011/3/1 Michael J Gruber : >> Introduce a leading ':' as the notation for repo-wide pathspecs. >> >> This is in line with our treeish:path notation which defaults to >> repowide paths. >> >> Heck: Even ':./path' works for pathspecs, and I have no clue why! > > 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. (I have not checked for interaction of those two, which are in flight.) I would think that file names like ":foo" are problematic on msys already, so in a sense they are no-no already, and free to take as special notation. Michael