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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Maybe we can make the ":" literal
> when it can't be parsed, or make it do something (":/" as you
> suggested), because swallowing it and then doing nothing seems doubly bad.

Another possible tweak would be to make ":" without even any "pattern"
after it to become a no-element, in order to allow the same difference
between "git log" and "git log ." to be expressed from within a
subdirectory.

The difference matters when you have commits created with --allow-empty
that are discarded by path based history simplification.