From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Drew Northup Subject: Re: git-reset man page Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:55:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20121110155718.GA29321@shrek.podlesie.net> <7v8va9p6pn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20121110204633.GA29363@shrek.podlesie.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , git , peff@peff.net To: Krzysztof Mazur , Angelo Borsotti X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 18 17:55:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta89Y-0007z5-3o for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:55:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752492Ab2KRQzM (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:55:12 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:45992 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752408Ab2KRQzL (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:55:11 -0500 Received: by mail-bk0-f46.google.com with SMTP id q16so1640053bkw.19 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:55:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=YkgApt3yOJuI3nhwuNMtJVpf1DcRn0jdt3/TQHhFFak=; b=cg3Glp8XzW99ttlAS9URQCDw6S+PxVZZqFvDXMLbDJEnHwsborLf2tAg8jiXoNQg6N DA2Yn47Tg6oHrjbHDPDsJ3VihwjoIMlXay79os5dSUV0T89VbBZaHH7Um+KK4dOfToWh wzLgLQACHb01HaWCrzphS0gqxSaGPYKyujXboIp+xwRuZTvzx5WN8ekEHWDfhF4Oi5b5 KM6nvfkp5DhV6WvAfxF0WkQOAlVkEhai4zMZE1QeVAIyO3qCXVuRKBm8vG7sHpT9yrdx c5zdS8aObgmMBe3A6JXkMp3cWKPNXBOfMMS26ZP8nAfnAYpiWSM9XJ9NI3s/cUK4+1iD U5zA== Received: by 10.204.145.217 with SMTP id e25mr4094635bkv.123.1353257709698; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.205.122.144 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:55:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121110204633.GA29363@shrek.podlesie.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Krzysztof Mazur wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:02:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Krzysztof Mazur writes: >> >> > Maybe we should just add that is an shortcut for >> > and fix places where paths and pathspec are mixed or is used as >> > . >> >> We should unify uses of and (the former should be >> ... or something). > > Currently in most cases "..." is used ;) > So we should always use "" for exact path, and "" for > pathspecs patterns as defined in gitglossary. I think it's better > to avoid "" and always use "..." or "..." I suspect that the only reason why the differentiation between "" and "" happened is because there may be some places where it was seen that a _list of paths_ was acceptable (which isn't a pathspec, as it isn't a search expression) and other places where _only_ a single path was acceptable. Should that fail to be the case then there would be a good argument for changing the affected instances of "" to "" in the documentation. (I know of no other good way to pluralize "" myself.) -- -Drew Northup -------------------------------------------------------------- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59