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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	 Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Define "precious" attribute and support it in `git clean`
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:39:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfs2e3292.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9C4A2AFD-AAA2-4ABA-8A8B-2133FD870366@icloud.com> (Sebastian Thiel's message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:09:27 +0200")

Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com> writes:

> But if there is now a prefix, I feel that it might as well be chosen so that it
> is easier to remember and/or less likely to cause conflicts.

Another criteria is that it is not very often used in real
pathnames, of course, and '!' and '$' are good ones.

Come to think of it, we might be able to retrofit '!' without too
much damage.  Something like "!unignored" is now a deprecated but
still supported way to say "!!unignored", "!*precious" is new, and
"\!anything" is a pathname that begins with '!'.

> Yes, I think my paragraph above is exactly that but with examples to practice
> the new syntax-proposal.

OK.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-13 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-10 12:37 [RFC] Define "precious" attribute and support it in `git clean` Sebastian Thiel
2023-10-10 13:38 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-10-10 14:10   ` Josh Triplett
2023-10-10 17:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-12  8:47       ` Josh Triplett
2023-10-10 19:10     ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-10-12  9:04       ` Josh Triplett
2023-10-10 17:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-11 10:06   ` Richard Kerry
2023-10-11 22:40     ` Jeff King
2023-10-11 23:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-12 10:55   ` Sebastian Thiel
2023-10-12 16:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-13  9:09       ` Sebastian Thiel
2023-10-13 16:39         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-10-14  7:30           ` Sebastian Thiel
2023-10-13 10:06       ` Phillip Wood
2023-10-14 16:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-13 11:25       ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-14  5:59   ` Josh Triplett
2023-10-14 17:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-15  6:44     ` Elijah Newren
2023-10-15  7:33       ` Sebastian Thiel
2023-10-15 16:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-16  6:02           ` Sebastian Thiel
2023-10-23  7:15           ` Sebastian Thiel
2023-10-29  6:44             ` Elijah Newren
2023-10-11 21:41 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk

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