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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:47:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvd98b1jh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f6ddf1fa551acf6074140865fbc2940ab45ed83.1277384506.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Thu\, 24 Jun 2010 15\:02\:27 +0200")

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

> The empty treeish in ":path" means "index", not "HEAD" like in probably
> every other place.

I would suggest dropping the ', not "HEAD"... place.' part from the above.
It is more confusing than useful to the readers.  

E.g. "git diff <treeish>" compares with the named tree-ish, but "git diff"
compares with the index, even though the latter obviously lacks <treeish>
and does not default to HEAD.

The rule is more like "the index is used by default for missing value, but
with an operation that does not make sense with the index, it defaults to
the HEAD", I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-24 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-24 10:14 [PATCH] git-cat-file.txt: Document --textconv Michael J Gruber
2010-06-24 11:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-24 12:56   ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-24 12:56     ` [PATCHv2] " Michael J Gruber
2010-06-24 13:54       ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-24 20:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-24 13:02     ` [PATCH] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier Michael J Gruber
2010-06-24 20:47       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-06-25 14:32         ` [PATCHv2] " Michael J Gruber
2010-06-25 15:25           ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-25 17:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-27 13:15               ` [PATCHv3] " Michael J Gruber
2010-06-27 19:29                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-27 19:41                   ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-28  6:22                   ` Matthieu Moy
2010-06-28  8:18                   ` [PATCH] git-rev-parse.txt: Add more examples for caret and colon Michael J Gruber
2010-06-28 10:03                     ` Peter Kjellerstedt
2010-06-28 10:27                       ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-28 19:01                         ` [PATCHv2] " Michael J Gruber
2010-06-25 15:53           ` [PATCHv2] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier Junio C Hamano
2010-06-24 20:09     ` [PATCH] git-cat-file.txt: Document --textconv Junio C Hamano
2010-06-25  9:04       ` Michael J Gruber

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