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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Dakota Hawkins <dakota@dakotahawkins.com>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: .gitattributes override behavior (possible bug, or documentation bug)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 04:36:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321083646.GA32578@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHnyXxTP7i4G=4G_ihRQTSbLNzAWuqZ3FoX0NtesAX219Pa5-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 04:35:26AM -0400, Dakota Hawkins wrote:

> > I think it means "for the rest of the description of how the patterns
> > work". I.e., "foo/" matches as "foo" when the rest of the matching rules
> > are applied. I agree it's a bit awkward. Patches welcome. :)
> 
> I'd be more than happy to do that!
> 
> It will take me a while, this (email and text-patches) is foreign to
> me and will take me some extra time, but I think I can figure it out.
> 
> Is "consistent with the way how pathspec works in general in Git"
> absolutely still true (and relevant?)

I think so. "git log Makefile/" will not match anything, for example.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20  1:49 .gitattributes override behavior (possible bug, or documentation bug) Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20  2:34 ` Jeff King
2018-03-20  3:10   ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20  3:17     ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20  4:12       ` Jeff King
2018-03-20  4:04     ` Jeff King
2018-03-20  4:14       ` [PATCH] doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behavior Jeff King
2018-03-20  4:28         ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 16:41         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-21  6:50           ` Jeff King
2018-03-21 16:16             ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-23  9:12               ` Jeff King
2018-03-20  4:25       ` .gitattributes override behavior (possible bug, or documentation bug) Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20  4:40         ` Jeff King
2018-03-20  4:49           ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20 16:28           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-21  3:22             ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21  6:52               ` Jeff King
2018-03-21  7:36                 ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21  7:44                   ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21  7:50                   ` Jeff King
2018-03-21  8:35                     ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-21  8:36                       ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-03-21 16:18                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-21 16:07               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-20  3:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-20  3:40     ` Dakota Hawkins
2018-03-20  3:45     ` Jeff King

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