From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 14:35:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170208223532.GB108686@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1702072113040.25002@i7.lan>
On 02/07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@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 shell
> expansion since it needs quoting.
>
> So add '^' as an alternative alias for an excluding pathspec entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> pathspec.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
> index 7ababb315..ecad03406 100644
> --- a/pathspec.c
> +++ b/pathspec.c
> @@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ static const char *parse_short_magic(unsigned *magic, const char *elem)
> char ch = *pos;
> int i;
>
> + /* Special case alias for '!' */
> + if (ch == '^') {
> + *magic |= PATHSPEC_EXCLUDE;
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> if (!is_pathspec_magic(ch))
> break;
I like adding '^' to be an alias for excluding patterns. There have
been numerous times where I have wanted to use exclude patterns and
forgotten that I've needed to do some escape magic to get my shell to
leave '!' alone.
The only issue I see with doing this is that if a user supplies an
exclude pattern for a command which doesn't support exclude pathspec
magic the unsupported_magic() function will have slightly cryptic
output.
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 rather '^'. That being said I think it
should be fine since the long name of the magic is also printed so the
user should be able to figure out what's wrong. I also don't think
there are any users of pathspecs which disallow exclude magic so this
may not even be an issue.
--
Brandon Williams
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-08 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-08 5:13 [PATCH 1/2] pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!' Linus Torvalds
2017-02-08 13:23 ` Cornelius Weig
2017-02-08 22:35 ` Brandon Williams [this message]
2017-02-08 23:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-08 23:16 ` Stefan Beller
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