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| author |  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-07 21:05:28 -0800 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-02-10 13:19:10 -0800 |
| commit | 42ebeb9d07de3c6d3a263f8ebce0508e489e5cc9 (patch) | |
| tree | 234f4e3d7bfc1e7464da0447fd2ba95b41aef93f /Documentation/glossary-content.txt | |
| parent | Git 2.12-rc0 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-42ebeb9d07de3c6d3a263f8ebce0508e489e5cc9.tar.xz | |
pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'
The choice of '!' for a negative pathspec ends up not only not matching
what we do for revisions, it's also a horrible character for shell
expansion since it needs quoting.
So add '^' as an alternative alias for an excluding pathspec entry.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/glossary-content.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 8ad29e61a9..822ca83264 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic. exclude;; After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run - through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!`). If it - matches, the path is ignored. + through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!` or its + synonym `^`). If it matches, the path is ignored. -- [[def_parent]]parent:: |