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From: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pathspec: don't error out on all-exclusionary pathspec patterns
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 14:23:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35bd1d35-4cb8-cf40-38ee-7442efc0f139@tngtech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1702072113380.25002@i7.lan>

Again, as Duy pointed out this should be documented.

How about something like this:

diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index f127fe9..781cde3 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -387,7 +387,9 @@ Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic.
 exclude;;
        After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run
        through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!` or `^`). If it
-       matches, the path is ignored.
+       matches, the path is ignored. If only exclude pathspec are given,
+       the exclusion is applied to the result set as if invoked without any
+       pathspec.
 --
 
 [[def_parent]]parent::

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-08 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-08  5:14 [PATCH 2/2] pathspec: don't error out on all-exclusionary pathspec patterns Linus Torvalds
2017-02-08 13:23 ` Cornelius Weig [this message]
2017-02-08 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-08 22:16   ` Linus Torvalds

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