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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: ':/<oneline prefix>' notation doesn't support full file syntax
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:33:51 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Dana How wrote:

> I was surprised to see Dscho advocating removing this feature 
> altogether.

Why is everybody surprised when I admit mistakes?

Granted, --grep did not exist when I wrote :/ but now it does, and there 
is no good reason to keep an ill-defined construct in Git when we have 
something better.

Ciao,
Dscho