Re: [PATCH 0/9] magic pathspec updates

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Note that no such command exists in our vocabulary today, so you need
> to imagine "git local-log" that acts like "git log" but by default
> shows history simplified to explain only the subdirectory you are
> currently in, or something.
>
> Such an application can easily notice that argv[] has only a lone ":"
> left and do the same thing it does when there is no pathspec, without
> affecting other (existing) users of get_pathspec().

Hmm.. if ":" (the semantics) is only used in few commands, perhaps an
option would be better than the cryptic ":".

> I am leaning toward ripping the lone ":" support from the code in
> "next". I would also remove ":(icase)" from "next". It was only meant
> to be a POC to show how far we could go only by futzing get_pathspec()
> function, and was never meant to be a serious implementation of the
> feature. It should be re-done after we do deeper conversion and use
> the "struct pathspec" interface not "char **" interface.

OK. But reserve the lone ":" syntax. It's precious. We may have a use
case for it some day.
-- 
Duy