From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Lily Ballard <lily@sb.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: manpage for `git ls-files` uses <file> instead of <pathspec>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:03:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzhvi8e9r.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539228001.1758106.1538051752.20CB6C51@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Lily Ballard's message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:20:01 -0700")
Lily Ballard <lily@sb.org> writes:
> I haven’t checked any other commands that the glossary lists as
> taking pathspecs (except `git add`, which does properly list it as
> taking pathspecs), so I don’t know if any of the other commands
> incorrectly list themselves as taking files when they take
> pathspecs.
I do not offhand think of a command that only takes pathname,
including "ls-files". New users would think "git cmd README" is
taking a single filename "README", and "ls-files" doc uses "file"
in a misguided attempt to be "newbie friendly", but it always has
used that "README" string as a pattern to match paths against.
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-11 3:20 Bug: manpage for `git ls-files` uses <file> instead of <pathspec> Lily Ballard
2018-10-13 8:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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