On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> - it hints that '!' is the more official spelling, making the
>output you showed above acceptable.
Long term , I'd rather have ^ as the "official" spelling as that is easier
to teach to people. ! being a historic
Brandon Williams writes:
> git cmd -- :^dir
>
> would produce some output which says:
> ':^dir': pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'exclude' (mnemonic:
> '!')
>
> And the user may scratch their head for a second since they didn't
> supply the '!' character, but
On 02/07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:05:28 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'
>
> The choice of '!' for a negative pathspec ends up not only not matching
&g
As Duy pointed out, the glossary needs an update too.
For this one, the cange can be minimal I think:
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 8ad29e6..f127fe9 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++
From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:05:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'
The choice of '!' for a negative pathspec ends up not only not matching
what we do for revisions, it's also a horrible character for
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