On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> writes: > >>> 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. > > To clarify, think what that non-pathspec means when used like this: > > $ git diff :(size>1M) > $ git log --follow :(size>1M) > > Which side of comparison does the "size" thing apply? Either, both, > randomly? More importantly, what use case of users do these > commands serve? > > That is why I said that pathspec should never consider anything but > the pathname string you see.
I see. That is bad indeed. So I'll go back and finish the submodulespec to present. Thanks, Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
