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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] submodule groups
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> So I wonder if we rather want to extend the pathspec magic to
> include properties of blobs (i.e. submodules):
>
>     git <command> . :(sub-label:label-sub0) :(exclude)*0
>
> would look much more powerful too me. Properties of blobs
> may also be interesting for otherwise. Imagine looking for huge files
> (in a bare repo, so you have to use Git and not your shell tools):
>
>   git ls-files . :(file-size:>1024k)

I somehow do not think this is a way normal people (read: end users)
would want to interact with Git.  Pathspec is about "paths" and
various ways to match them.  It is not about contents that happens
to be currently named by that path.  Don't tie types or sizes to it.