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On 13/10/2021 17:21, Alex Waite wrote:
> In my view, the primary bug is how difficult it was to debug what was going wrong. This is most easily solved by improving the git docs to specify which characters will be matched. Even better if GIT_TRACE (or something similar) can inform/warn the user about matching.
It did sound to me that the documentation route was a way out of the
confusing situation.
--
Philip