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Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:42:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: AA3O5JZkN_G7 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:41:40 +0200 From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" To: "Junio C Hamano" Cc: "Julia Evans" , "D. Ben Knoble" , "Josh Soref" , git@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <1629C205-700F-4A8A-84BE-302D172416F8@gmail.com> <236a79f4-e9a2-4335-bbff-79ae0cc67e9b@app.fastmail.com> <35faaf30-6326-4784-80ff-723c20ed6b13@app.fastmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] doc: git-checkout: clarify DESCRIPTION section Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Sep 16, 2025, at 01:22, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > >> There should be a gitpathspecs(7). Not just a glossary entry. > > This sounds like a good #leftoverbits topic for new-ish people to > work on, with help from old timers? I do agree that the entry in > the glossary has grown to be way too big. The pathspec magic itself > should be mentioned there in the glossary, but the details of it > feels a bit too much and the topic probably deserves its own manual > page, just like gitrevisions(7) has one. I added it to the unofficial tracker. https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/1971 -- Kristoffer Haugsbakk