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I have noticed that the magic pathspec ":/" is described only in RelNotes for revision 1.7.6: |* A magic pathspec ":/" tells a command that limits its operation to the current directory when ran from a subdirectory to work on the entire working tree. In general, ":/path/to/file" would be relative to the root of the working tree hierarchy. After "git reset --hard; edit Makefile; cd t/", "git add -u" would be a no-op, but "git add -u :/" would add the updated contents of the Makefile at the top level. If you want to name a path in the current subdirectory whose unusual name begins with ":/", you can name it by "./:/that/path" or by "\:/that/path".| || |I think the reason might be that there was no good place to put that information in. Nowadays we have gitcli(7) manual page, but perhaps it would be better to create a separate manpage for issues related to pathspec handling (of which ":/" is only one part)... but then what should it be named? What do you think? -- Jakub Narębski ||| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
